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MESH|Lab

About MESH|Lab

Software that makes precision care possible.

Clinicians, researchers and patients connected through our software.

MESH|Lab is the medical-software research group hosted at Oslo University Hospital (OUS). We translate clinical needs — our own and our collaborators’ — into practical, production-grade software for precision medicine.

What we work on

We span three layers, from infrastructure up to the bedside:

  1. Operating systems and platforms for reproducible medical computing — currently centred on SystoleOS.
  2. Infrastructure for clinical and research data — interoperability with bedside devices, image archives, and surgical-navigation systems.
  3. End-user medical applications — 3D Slicer extensions for surgical planning and intra-operative guidance, simulation, and image analysis.

Across these layers we organise the work along four research themes: Systems & infrastructure, Image-guided surgery & navigation, Surgical simulation & robotics, and Clinical data & AI.

How we work

Five principles shape day-to-day decisions and project selection:

  • Needs-driven. We continuously map unmet clinical problems and rank them by impact and feasibility. The research roadmap follows the clinical roadmap.
  • Interdisciplinary by default. Clinicians, data scientists, software engineers, and regulatory experts work together on every project — not in series.
  • Rigorous and compliant. We build under modern agile practice and the standards medical software is held to: IEC 62304, ISO 13485, GDPR, and FAIR data principles.
  • Sustainably funded. We diversify income across competitive grants, industry co-development, service contracts, and spin-outs.
  • Open where we can. Most of our software releases are open-source; we maintain them long-term, not just at paper-publish time. See the OUH-MESHLab GitHub organisation.

Our partners

We sustain active collaborations with hospitals, universities, research institutes, and industry across Europe and North America. The current network includes Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Harvard), Inria, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Paris Brain Institute, Queen’s University, the École de Technologie Supérieure, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, the University of Córdoba, Kitware Inc., Isomics Inc., and NVIDIA.

See the Projects and Team pages for who’s working on what — and Join us if you want to do precision- medicine software for real patients, with the regulatory rigour the clinic demands.