Septimus: another real-world application with Red

My medical colleagues in the R2P2 unit are not all experienced developers. They've got other things to do, like saving lives. And they want immediate answers to their clinical questions. And they need easy-to-use tools.

That's why I like to use Red (or Rebol3) to develop tailor-made applications for my colleagues. No complexity (like Python), just Redbol simplicity!

That's what Septimus was designed for. We want to be able to follow the evolution of bacterial infections in our young patients according to the treatment applied. The big idea was to use an infra-red camera to detect points not visible to the naked eye.I've adapted some of redCV's functions to make it an independent module (see flir.red code). Actually, we use Septimus for following patients with acute tibial osteomyelitis.

Septimus is very simple. Once the IR image has been loaded, you can use a rectangle (of variable size or colour) to select the relevant body part in IR image. Then with a single button, you get the hottest point in that area.

Septimus is also a salute to the Blake and Mortimer comic strip, of which I've long been a fan. I think I own every album in the series.

The code is here: https://github.com/ldci/Septimus