Surgical students must practice procedures in a controlled and safe to make mistakes environment before they perform these procedures on patients. Despite that, surgical practices in these conditions are traditionally limited by the tutor’s time ...

• A novel personalized virtual reality-based training system for vascular intervention is developed.
• A multi-level progressive continuous method, leveraging spatial hashing, is used for collision detection.
• Our proposed blood vessel ...

Virtual training has emerged as an exceptionally effective approach for training healthcare practitioners in the field of vascular intervention surgery. By providing a simulated environment and blood vessel model that ...

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Surgical trainees need a lot of training and practice before being able to operate independently. The current approach of surgical education mainly involves didactic teaching and psychomotor training through physical ...

• Development of mobile application for facial reconstructive surgical education.
• Real-time augmented reality applied to live videos of patients' faces.
• Accurate overlays were achieved in over 91% out of 263 generated face images.

• A novel zygomatic implant training system based on force feedback.
• Virtual reality system based on haptic device.
• Global collision detection, real-time and multi-points.
• Optimized finite element method for soft tissue ...

Zygomatic implant surgery is challenging due to the complex structure of the zygomatic bone, limited visual range during surgery, and lengthy implant path. Moreover, traditional training methods are costly, and ...

The mitral valve simulator provides an important training scenario for mitral valve suture repair surgery. However, since there are differences between simulator scenarios and intra-operative scenarios, trainers may not adapt well to ...

• A consistency regularization based approach for endoscopic image translation.
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VR simulators will gain wider place in medical education in order to ensure high quality surgical training. The integration of VR simulators into residency programs is actually required more than ever in the era after the pandemic. In this review, ...

The latest technological advancements in the domain of virtual reality (VR) have created new opportunities to use VR as a training platform for medical students and practitioners more broadly. Despite the growing interest in the use of VR as a ...

Simulated surgical planning and training has been proved to be effective in enhancing the performance of surgical operations. 3D medical image modeling and visualization is therefore gaining increasing attention in the research community as the ...

To exploit the potential of virtual reality (VR) in medicine, the input devices must be selected carefully due to their different benefits. In this work, input devices for common interaction tasks in medical VR planning and training are compared. ...

• Identification of relevant interaction tasks in medical VR applications.
• Comparison of four different input devices based on two representative medical applications.
• For common interaction tasks, a pen-like device achieved results ...

Laparoscopic surgeries require a high degree of visuo-spatial coordination between attending and resident surgeons. The challenge is intensified when surgeons communicate verbally using visual cues. Most prior work in the space supports attending ...

Simulation-based training has been widely used in medical education. More specifically, various systems for minimally invasive surgery training have been proposed in the past two decades. The aim of this article is to review and summarize the ...

The surgical education environment has been changing significantly due to restricted work hours, limited resources, and increasing public concern for safety and quality, leading to the evolution of simulation-based training in surgery. Of the ...

Recently, virtual reality (VR) technologies started gaining momentum in surgical simulation-based training by allowing clinicians to practice their skills before performing real procedures. The design of such simulators is usually focused on the ...

Orthognathic surgery (OGS) is a very complex surgical procedure aiming to correct a wide range of skeletal and dental irregularities, including jaws and teeth misalignments. It requires a precise pre-surgical planning and high surgical skills that ...

Hysteroscopy is a widely used gynaecological procedure to evaluate and treat cervical and intra-uterine pathology. In the last few decades, technical refinements in the optics technology, surgical accessories and the reduction of the outer ...

Augmented Reality has been utilized for surgical training. During the implementation, displaying instructional information at the right moment is critical for skill acquisition. We built a new surgical training platform combining augmented reality ...

A new algorithm for the evaluation of surgeons according to their skills.Analysis of surgical performance based on motion information with dynamic time warping algorithm.Definition of an evaluating indicator to outstand critical information in surgical ...

Recent research in virtual reality indicates that computer-based simulators are an effective technology to use for surgeons learning to improve their surgical skills in a controlled environment. This article presents the development of a virtual reality ...

A virtual-reality simulator was developed for the training of Otolaryngology (Ear-Nose-Throat) surgical residents to perform myringotomy, a relatively common surgical procedure in which an incision is made in the eardrum mainly to treat middle-ear ...

Surgical trainees must maximise the educational and developmental opportunities of time spent in the operating theatre. Post-operative debriefing on performance based on observed skills is one way of achieving this and is regularly done in other high-...