Upgrade in 3D body scans provides necessary precision to the medical field 

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This improvement in 3D body scans might be essential to doctors and medical experts once it provides vital details regarding a patient’s body before diagnosis. 

Alessio Gallucci, a doctorate from the Eindhoven University of Technology, developed an updated study on 3D body scanning. His research provided a more detailed version of full-body 3D scans from which medical experts might benefit from extremely precise layouts for analysis. The program utilizes artificial intelligence to produce realistic images of the human body.

As revealed in a press release, the level of detail of a body scan makes a difference for doctors when performing a diagnosis. For example, a 3D scan of the surface area of a patient’s skin and its details might help determine the amount of chemotherapy to be executed. Therefore, as Gallucci explained, a full body scan offers higher precision rates and can be instrumental in medical practices. 

Other possible benefits that this body mapping program might generate are helping to measure the exact dosage of medicine and even detecting skin cancer. As a side feature, Gallucci also trained the AI servers to count body hairs, assisting with personal grooming. 

The doctor in Mathematics and Computer Science alerted on the dominance of white male subjects for the research as a possible bias. However, he emphasized that a more diversified sample of test subjects might contribute to more intrinsic results dataset.

Half a million euros for research into digital 3D scans of people

The recently opened Volumetric 3D Videostudio in the Eindhoven Effenaar will also get a research branch.