SOFTWARE developed for the film industry is being adapted to predict how surgery on a particular person’s face will alter their appearance after the operation. The software, which models the effect of the different incisions surgeons can make, is designed to help minimise the disfigurement some patients can suffer after a major operation.
“The system allows the user to see the results of a particular wound closure and edit the cutting path to explore different options,” says Steve Pieper, a computer scientist at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Surgical Planning Laboratory in Boston who helped create it.
When surgeons remove…
