Wei Zhang
Application of deep learning to address various important problems in healthcare domain.
Tag: health care
WID researchers are working to improve human health, including through initiatives targeting the health care system, from operating rooms and clinics to home health care and personal health information management. By approaching health care from expertise in data sciences, visualization, virtual reality, and other WID research strengths, WID can promote “healthy people” initiatives.
Many health care researchers at WID are a part of WID’s Data Science Hub.
Virtual Environments Group
The LEL is a space and a place where scholars explore the connections among environment, technology, human action, experience, and visualization, with expertise in virtual and augmented reality.
Ponto Lab
Develop techniques to better the experience of virtual reality through new devices, interfaces, and techniques.
Gail Casper
Senior Scientist
Use visualization to explore technologies to support management of health and illness in the home.
Arezoo Movaghar
Develop computational models to improve our understanding of neurodevelopmental disorders
Nicholas Escanilla
Feature selection techniques to find key interacting genetic features associated with disease.
Brady Boettcher
Virtual reality applications and plugins; creating display system rendering techniques.
Erica Gill
Associate Director, Living Environments Lab
Providing operational support to the immersive visualization researchers at WID.
Ross Tredinnick
Systems Programmer
Immersive visualization, 3D environment scanning, virtual reality research and development
Kevin Ponto
Assistant Professor, Discovery Dialogue Hub Leader
Use virtual reality to simulate the experience of real-life spaces for real-world outcomes.
Immersed in the Ethics of Virtual Reality
The Living Environments Laboratory will host the Ethics in Investigational & Interventional Uses of Virtual Reality (e3iVR) conference beginning with public talks on the afternoon of April 26. More information and registration are at go.wisc.edu/e3iVR.
vizHOME Paper Wins Award for Phase I of Home Health Study
Researchers seeking participants with diagnosed diabetes to continue cutting edge research.
LEL’s Brennan Named to Lead National Library of Medicine
Expert in the area of digital health information and communication begins new position August 15th.
Imagining a Healthier Future
Patricia Flatley Brennan seeks to utilize imagination to optimize patient healthcare outcomes.
CSI: Discovery
An emerging collaboration between the Living Environments Lab at WID and the Dane County Sheriff’s office is bringing crime scene investigation into the 21st century with 3D scanning technology.
Scoring Big at Game Changing Games
At the beginning of June, HzX brought together 40 top researchers and industry leaders to find news ways to innovate in the integration of games in business, healthcare, and education.
Discovery Fellow Aims to Predict Healthcare Outcomes
David Page tackles relational databases and algorithms to predict and improve patient health.
Tools for Discovery: Kevin Ponto
Tools for Discovery is a monthly profile series that inspects the computer programs, gadgets and methods behind WID’s ideas and discoveries.