TreeHacks

At TreeHacks, everything's chill but the weather.

Name

TreeHacks

Organizer

Stanford University

Location

Han-Hsun Huang Engineering Center - Stanford University

Date

February 12th to 14th, 2016

Role

Out of State Applicant Scholarship, Travel Grant Recipient
Participant
Prize Winner

About

Stanford’s annual hackathon.TreeHacks is Stanford University’s official national hackathon. This year, they brought in over 670 hackers with a 50/50 gender ratio, the first major student-run hackathon to be able to do so.

Our team, Big Hero 4, created Ammalia (which means surgery in Arabic), a Leap Motion assisted app that allows medical professionals to easily view and manipulate scans while scrubbed in, sterile and ready to perform a surgery
Best Social Impact Prize - Sponsored by GoodHacks
Best Use of Dropbox API - Sponsored by Dropbox

Project

Ammalia. Where surgeons go to explore.

Ammalia, which means surgery in Arabic, is a Leap Motion assisted app that allows a surgeon to analyze pictures of their patient’s problem (i.e. brain tumors) using the Dropbox API.The areas we believe Ammalia could be the most useful is with radiology image manipulation / scrolling while scrubbed in & sterile in the OR.https://devpost.com/software/ammaliahttps://francescoronel.com/portfolio/ammalia/

Awards

Out of State Applicant Scholarship - December 2015

I was 1 of 150 hackers from out of state who was accepted to attend TreeHacks with full travel reimbursement from over two thousand applicants, so basically a ~7.5% acceptance rate.

Hackathon Prizes

Best Use of Dropbox API 100 GB of Dropbox storage for each member
Best Social Impact
Lunch with Stanford President Hennessey + $400 to a charity of your choice
Coaching with Shannon Farley & Tour of Fast Forward
$400 to a charity of your choice

Coverage

This is a Medium article about one of my teammates from the hackathon - Stephanie. She was awesome!

https://medium.com/@hackwithtrees/hacker-spotlight-stephane-zeidan-52a4c90375e8

Branding

Theme Color: #62A7C6
Font: Karla

README Badge

Created a README badge using Sketch to be used for project READMEs hacked out at TreeHacks.

Future Features

We can see Ammalia potentially pivoting to include 3D manipulation of MRI and CT scans mid-procedure, which is important when, for example, determining the extent of a tumor in real-time.
Another area we could look into is radiology and cardiology intervention which would actually involve catheter manipulation.
Also, depending on the patient chosen, Ammalia could also showcase different health record data points that pertain to the patient being showcased\ (i.e. name, age, background, etc).

Tools

Leap Motion
uses Leap Motion API and hardware to track hand gestures (pan in/out, zoom in/out, slide right/left) without physically touching computer
Dropbox API
use Dropbox for uploading/storing images for patient’s problems
have folders within Dropbox API represent a single patient