{"id":7076,"date":"2014-06-04T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T06:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.protectia.eu\/european-inventor-award-2014-nowinski-3d-brain-atlas\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T09:11:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:11:48","slug":"european-inventor-award-2014-nowinski-3d-brain-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.protectia.eu\/en\/european-inventor-award-2014-nowinski-3d-brain-atlas\/","title":{"rendered":"European Inventor Award 2014: Nowinski and 3D brain atlas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The event of the European Inventor Award 2014 is getting closer: next 7th of June, in Berlin, will take place the ceremony which is going to announce the winner of the so called \u201cOscar of technology\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>For our \u201cPatents world\u201d, we are going to propose a video developed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epo.org\/\">EPO<\/a> (European Patent Office) presenting another of the finalists, competing under the <strong>\u201cLifetime achievement\u201d category<\/strong>: Professor <strong>Wieslaw L. Nowinski<\/strong>, <strong>inventor of 3D brain atlas for medical use.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wieslaw L. Nowinski - 3D brain atlases for clinical use\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dm8VPRXsIU8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Professor Nowinski is the director of the Biomedical Imaging Lab at the institute of Engineering, Biopolis, Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>For over 30 years, he has been investigating the brain and its properties, getting a better understanding of the brain in order to treat deseases more effectively. <strong>His invention consists in a three-dimensional image of the anatomical structure of the brain, which makes possible analysing it for clinical practice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nowinski\u2019s 3D brain atlases, named <strong>\u201cCerefy\u201d<\/strong>, are not completely new attempts to exploring the brain; in fact, atlases of the brain have been developed since the 1950s in print. Technological progress has made it possible to construct three-dimensional visualization with additional functionality (such as structure labels), working and studying on the bases of huge amount of data and images.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Doing medical research is the most rewarding job. I believe that our two most valuable gifts are time and brain, so I use my time to work on the brain&#8221;,\u00a0<\/em>says Nowinski.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nowinski and his team enter the <strong>data of over 1 thousands patients with brain disfunction into the software.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>3D brain atlas contains 3 thousand pieces.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>3D brain atlas<\/strong> or brain map is <strong>comparable to a navigation system in a car<\/strong>: affected area in the brain can be detected more easily with this three dimensional map.<\/li>\n<li>Within the course of 17 years they developed <strong>33 different brain atlases<\/strong> currently used by numerous physicians all over the world for research and education, but also for the diagnosis and treatment of many brain disorders, such as Parkinson\u2019s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Polish inventor <strong>holds 32 patents (15 of them in the US) and manages 4 hi-tech medical companies in Singapore<\/strong> and over a thousand surgeons now work with the atlas he has developed.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested and you want to consult more information, you can access the document of the publication of the patent EP1728213 \u00a0named &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.protectia.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/3d-brain-atlas.pdf\">Method and apparatus for identifying pathology in brain images<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event of the European Inventor Award 2014 is getting closer: next 7th of June, in Berlin, will take place the ceremony which is going to announce the winner of the so called \u201cOscar of technology\u201d. 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