January TED talks includes one very interesting  speech from Professor Ynnerman, the founder of Norrköping Visualization and Interaction Studio (NVIS). The talk is about Professor Ynnermans’ famous research; using tranform functions to reduce the extremely large amounts of volymetric data from modern medical 3D data scans… then highlighting portions of the data allowing for the production of 3D graphics that are more or less like artistic paintings.

This way Professor Ynnerman and his team can, in just a couple of minutes, perform advanced biopsis on full body scans useful for crime investigations à la CSI…

Check out the amazing work yourself at the TED talk below!

And where does the SenseGraphics technology fit in here? Haptics is actually one of the research topics Ynnerman is working on. As a matter of fact, SenseGraphics has been commercializing the “Volumetric Haptics Toolkit” to H3DAPI, featured in the video (check 11 minutes, beating heart, there is also an older picture of a SenseGraphics Display featured), work done by researcher KJ Lundin Palmerius.