Wired News - No More Crash-Test Surgery:
"Stanford engineer and surgeon Charles Taylor has worked for about a decade to bring more predictability into surgery. He and his collaborators have amassed medical data including MRIs and CT scans, and combined them with algorithms the team has worked out to predict blood flow, the flexibility of veins and arteries, among other parameters. His goal is to develop a simple software tool that allows surgeons to practice each individual operation before touching scalpel to skin."
