Austin 3DMed Lab

Great to be back on site at @UniMelb Parkville for today’s @arccmit Symposium with Prof Peter VS Lee. Congratulations to all the students and industry partners who have taken part in this program. @3dmedLab

Congrats to Dr @georgiakharris for this #LipoproteinA #Takayasu publication in Int J Rheum Dis. Complex problems require multidisciplinary input - in this case #Rheumatology #Cardiology #VascularSurgery #DiagnosticRadiology & #Pathology. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/shar…

I’ve got no doubt that 3d technologies have already paved the way for huge revolutions in vascular surgery. It’s exciting to be part of the development of this field.

4. When using AR and VR we are reliant on models and systems which have errors. The tolerable error of segmentation, registration and overlay vary widely with the projected use case. We need to be open and clear about these errors and risks.

3. We still tend to work with post-processed CT and MRI because it is accessible and (mostly) standardised but a lot of useful data is lost by this stage. If we could unlock proprietary tomographic raw data this could transform how we use AI and machine learning for prediction.

2. Segmentation of aortic wall vs aortic flow lumen are two very different things. The effect of mural thrombus on aneurysm evolution is poorly understood.

But there also seem to be common problems that we keep encountering. 1. CFD and FEA can tell us about flow and wall shear stress but unless your model includes wall material characteristics then you are making a huge assumption that aortic wall tissue behaves uniformly.

It’s interesting the general themes of development that are benefiting from AI, from streamlined 3d segmentation, AI-driven predictive modelling ve traditional CFD/FEA analysis, improved 3d printing results, various methods of AR image overlay for surgical guidance.

Thankyou Fernando Bello from @ICCESS_Imperial @imperialcollege for sharing your #VR #AR #SimulationJourney experience with @Austin_Health @unimelb DeptOf #Surgery @3dmedLab

Congratulations @JasamineCB on yet another feather in your cap! @3dMedLab @JRobotSurg @UniMelbMDHS @Austin_Health @AustinUrology @TheRMH @VERITAS_Collab #ProstateCancer #RoboticSurgery #3dMed link.springer.com/article/10…

Very pleased to be invited to speak with @TGAgovau on Personalised Medical Devices on behalf of @3dmedLab @arccmit @Austin_Health and @UniMelbMDHS. Fostering a better understanding of the interaction between hospitals, universities, industry and regulators improves patient care.

Congrats to our team for another @Austin_Health @3dmedLab publication on 3D Printed Complex Hip Arthroplasty Models! Great work by Michael Jiang, @JasamineCB @GHJChen Matthew Alexander & Andrew Hardidge. @AustinOrthopods @UniMelbMDHS. Check it out here: frontiersin.org/articles/10.…

An example of much of the collaborative interdisciplinary work conducted in Melbourne early in the COVID-pandemic. #ventilation #innovation @UniMelb @Austin_Health @western_health @TheRMH @RMIT @3dmedLab @msdsocial @engunimelb theconversation.com/amp/we-s…

Is there anything we can do to help avoid this? YES! - get vaccinated 💉 - hand wash 🧼 - mask 😷 & social distance EVEN AFTER lockdown ends - get tested with ANY symptoms 🤧 - isolate until your results are clear - comply with intermittent lockdowns as required /21 End 🧵

So what can we do about this, you ask? Well step one is recognising not only that it will happen, but that IT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW, in the US, in Indonesia, in Iran, in Tokyo, and in WESTERN SYDNEY. Watch this video to see how bad it can get. /18 vimeo.com/582276147

The @aihw estimates that Australia had about 59000 non-psychiatric inpatient hospital beds in 2017-18. Worst case scenario we lose up to 88% of our National bed capacity in one go. /11 aihw.gov.au/reports/hospital…

So it is inevitable that there will be locations and times when ICUs will be full. That means less capacity for major surgery. No beds for sick cancer patients, or rescuing heart attacks, strokes, ruptured aneurysms, or sick babies. /9

When @JoshFrydenberg says that “our health system is built to cope” he is not entirely wrong. But he’s also not entirely right. 🧵👇 /1 thenewdaily.com.au/news/coro…