Imaging is done on hospital MRI scanners. Image processing is done on normal Linux workstations using COTS and OS software. Simulations are run on Penguin on Demand at the moment (Beowulf cluster... yes really).

Unfortunately it's not open source, but yes, you've got the right site. That's us. The services on that site are outdated, however.

The largest financial burden per-patient is the imaging. An MRI can cost over $2k. The rest of the cost is going to have to do with getting a software-based medical device approved, which requires substantial software re-engineering and clinical trials to satisfy the FDA.

1. The system is run offsite, it doesn't currently have any installation costs.
2. It depends on what you factor in. There are a lot of costs to cover engineering and so on. The patient needs an MRI if they weren't already going to have one. That's the biggest cost depending on the hosptial (~US$2k). It's not currently being sold and pricing will have to be determined.
3. We operate the backend, all the doctors have to do is upload the MRI. Minimal training is required to interpret the results. We're working on presenting the data to EPs in forms they are already familiar with.

The difference in procedure time will be substantial. Right now most of the time spent on a VT ablation is for mapping the rhythms and scar. We can pretty much eliminate that (trials ongoing), meaning the procedure can be cut from 4-12 hours down to 2-3 hours, reliably. Considering the cost of time in the EP lab, the savings can be quite large. When it comes to ICDs, risk stratification is really important. If we can avoid putting in unnecessary devices which cost (not counting implantation) $25k-$55k, that's a big savings.

This research is being done in cooperation with EPs at JHU and some other top insitutions. It's not being done in a vaccum. We have retrospective validation and prospective is ongoing.

However, here is a peer-reviewed paper using the same technology. http://www.heartrhythmjournal....

These are preliminary results. They have not been published yet.

I'm working on the first clinical trial for this (the author is my former PhD advisor). There is good retrospective evidence in humans (described in the article) and I am trying very hard to start getting prospective data. Um. Ask me anything?

That was me and I'm completely serious. But it sounds like that nearly free speech site is just like what the OP is looking for.

Yes, at the point a suit was filed, the lawyer was needed. But the author appears to have made a solid decision before the lawyer was needed.

That seemed to come out in favour of the satirist.

I still buy DVDs and Blu-Rays rather than streaming media because I can always rip them (despite the DRM) and play them on any of my devices, vs paying the same price and only playing on Amazon/Google/whatever-compatible devices (read: not all of the devices I own that can play the video).

It's a very long story, but I basically worked as a fixer for an HPC company on contract for a few years. I'd log in remotely or (occasionally) fly out and fix messes made by people who didn't know how to solve problems with Linux servers using critical thinking. I'd watch them sometimes and they'd try the only thing they knew how to do, over and over again, without realizing that it wasn't fixing the problem. Instead of narrowing down what could be causing the issue and then doing some research/googling/RTFM and bothering to understand the issue, they'd just reboot the machine over and over, progressively screw up config files worse and worse, and then eventually I'd get called in to fix it. I don't know if it's possible to teach critical thinking skills, or if they're just developed over a lot of self-directed experiments, or if it's an issue of intelligence, but it's got to be costing companies untold millions of dollars every year in the US alone.