This paper describes a simulator of ultrasound-guided prostate biopsies for cancer diagnosis. When performing biopsy series, the clinician has to move the ultrasound probe and to mentally integrate the real-time bi-dimensional images into a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the anatomical environment. Such a 3D representation is necessary to sample regularly the prostate in order to maximize the probability of detecting a cancer if any. To make the training of young physicians easier and faster we developed a simulator that combines images computed from three-dimensional ultrasound recorded data to haptic feedback. The paper presents the first version of this simulator.
@article{arxiv.0812.3226,
title = {BiopSym: a simulator for enhanced learning of ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy},
author = {Stefano Sclaverano and Grégoire Chevreau and Lucile Vadcard and Pierre Mozer and Jocelyne Troccaz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.3226},
year = {2009}
}