Knutson wanted to use MRI scanners--the same devices used in medical diagnosis--to literally peer inside people's heads as they experienced intense emotions.
While the idea of measuring the flow and volume of your urine might seem giggle-worthy at first, it does have a legitimate role in medical diagnosis.
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One must make the distinction between the cognitive process of medical diagnosis occurring in exam rooms, with the procedural basis of surgical care and hospital recovery.
Just as the crew of an aircraft or ship can use such monitors to connect to remote medical centres, in order to help make diagnosis, obtain treatment advice and determine whether to divert for help or not, a commander in the field would be better informed about the need to evacuate a casualty which might mean calling off an operation.
In a consultation document published in December, the Ministry of Justice set out ideas for action, including creating new medical panels to improve diagnosis of whiplash injuries and allowing more cases to be challenged in the small claims court.
He puts this down to a limited knowledge of bipolar disorder among GPs and other medical professionals which means there is often a delay in diagnosis and a lack of information about the nature of the disorder.
The researchers repeated their analysis 10 times, splitting up their study group (children with a medical diagnosis of autism and children with no signs of autism) in different ways.
Diagnosis is more accurate, patients need to spend less time in hospital, and new medical equipment allows less invasive treatment.
But a three-year study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that, afterward, they are 10% more effective at diagnosis.
About 70% of women in the United States who have both breasts removed after a cancer diagnosis don't have a proven medical reason for undergoing the procedure, according to a 2012 study conducted by the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Antonio Criminsi of the Machine Learning and Perception group - the team which in effect invented the visual recognition system of Kinect - demonstrated how Kinect's underlying technology can be adapted for medical diagnosis.
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