Moneyball Medicine

These days, there's an explosion of digital imaging technology for almost every part of the body. There are the familiar types of imaging everyone knows, like CT scans, MRIs, ultrasound, and of course, X-rays. But now doctors and medical researchers are also exploring newer types of digital imaging technology, such as Optical Coherence Tomography, or OCT.OCT uses near-infrared light that penetrates just a couple of millimeters into a tissue such as an artery wall or the retina of the eye. By collecting the light that scatters back, OCT can produce an incredibly high-resolution cross section or even a 3D reconstruction of the tissue. Ophthalmology is one of the fields putting OCT to use most aggressively, partly because it’s perfect for showing cross-sections of the retina, the iris, the cornea, or the lens on the scale of micrometers.But as you can imagine, every time an ophthalmologist or optometrist uses an OCT scanner, the procedure generates a huge amount of digital data. Harry's guest, Carlos Ciller, sta