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Understanding 3D medical image orientation for programmers
If you’re new to working with medical images, then you’re in for a minefield. You’re going to have to put intuition aside because in alot of this, there isn’t any, or at least there was to start off with.
Aug 14, 2020
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Reading & Editing DICOM Metadata w/ Python
When my image viewer wouldn’t load a particular CT dataset, I was struck with errors telling me that I’m ‘missing geometry information’, looking at the metadata associated with DICOM images absolutely overwhelmed me.
Apr 5, 2019
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Using GitHub and Google Drive with google collab to manage code and data
Google colab is an incredible resource bringing GPU capabilities to those with just an internet connection (it doesn’t even have to be the best at that!) It’s literally an out of the box, ready set up Jupyter Notebook environment with pretty much every module you’ll want.
Apr 5, 2019
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The Antikythera Mechanism and improving the best image we have of its inner workings
The Antikythera Mechanism is an astronomical calculator made by the ancient Greeks in 200 BC that was capable of indicating the timing and characteristics of eclipses, positions of the sun and moon, including the moon’s phase and quite possibly the location of the five visible planets that can be seen with the naked eye.
Mar 2, 2019
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