MIT + UNIV. OF VIENNA – THE FUTURE OF BRAIN DISEASE DETECTION
OVERVIEW
Once a quarter we like to create a short, internal passion project based on a topic that inspires us, and use it as an opportunity to grow our skillsets and simply learn. When we discovered some work that is being done at MIT and the University of Vienna, which involves the reading brain activity through the use of high speed 3D imaging, we knew we wanted to visualize what the future of brain disease detection could possibly look like through the use of 3d animation.
SERVICES
3D Animation
Motion Design
Compositing
VFX
FUTURE DIAGNOSTICS.
Life science, medicine and healthcare innovation are exciting topics for our team to creatively explore. So when we discovered MIT and the University of Vienna’s research, a fascinating combination of light field microscopy and optogenetics, and saw how this scientific advancement could inform researchers on how to determine which cells are partaking in specific brain activity we were blown away. And because we love to build 3d scenes and environments we thought it would be a fun challenge to take the research and interpret it through a brief 3d medical animation.
Through the use of big camera movements and simplistic UI elements we distilled down the key points of the research to show the magnitude of this breakthrough and how it can, hopefully, be implemented into medical technology in the future.
We look forward to seeing advancement in this field of study and are excited at the possibility of seeing brain disease detection in a whole new light.
BASED on precision processing.
For more information regarding the research being done by these universities check out the links below:
Neuron Activity in 3D (Video) by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Illuminating Neuron Activity in 3D (Article) by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Please note that this is a project that is an interpretation of what we think the future of disease detection could look like based on such research being done by these two academic institutions. This project is not sponsored by nor reflects the opinions of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology or the University of Vienna, or any of the authors mentioned in the above article and video.
“Because we could image the neural activity throughout an entire nervous system, we can avoid the problem of not knowing where a particular computation is happening…[which] allows us to pinpoint where information processing is occurring.” —Ed Boyden
