Virtual consultation, actual peril

Invited commentary: The virtual epidemiologist—promise and peril.

The simulation of complex systems has received increasing attention as a useful approach in epidemiology. As discussed by Marshall and Galea in this issue of the Journal (Am J Epidemiol. 2015;181(2):92-99), systems approaches are appealing because they allow explicit recognition of feedback, interference, adaptation over time, and nonlinearities. However, they differ fundamentally from the trad...

Actual Traffic in a Virtual Reality

The purpose of this project is to integrate real-time traffic surveillance footage into a virtual reality setting. This can not only help with better projecting where any given car could go, but can also potentially improve driving simulations by giving their 3D environments some real-world traffic, making them more realistic. We are hoping to achieve this goal using primarily OpenCV/OpenGL and...

The Peril of Vehemence

Development of a teledermatopathology consultation system using virtual slides

BACKGROUND An online consultation system using virtual slides (whole slide images; WSI) has been developed for pathological diagnosis, and could help compensate for the shortage of pathologists, especially in the field of dermatopathology and in other fields dealing with difficult cases. This study focused on the performance and future potential of the system. METHOD In our system, histologic...

A Virtual Reality Bushfire Mitigation Tool for Community Consultation

Instigating fire prevention and mitigation procedures within the rural/urban interface can save properties and lives. Councils and fire services can only do so much to prevent bushfire spread and damage within these areas. It is highly desirable that local communities to take responsibility for fire prevention and mitigation on their own properties. Changing people’s fire prevention and mitigat...