Virtual Reality for Immersive Education in Orthopedic Surgery Digital Twins

Jonas Hein; Jan Grunder; Lilian Calvet; Frédéric Giraud; Nicola Alessandro Cavalcanti; Fabio Carrillo; Philipp Fürnstahl

Virtual Reality for Immersive Education in Orthopedic Surgery Digital Twins

Human-Computer Interaction 2024-09-18 v1

Authors: Jonas Hein , Jan Grunder , Lilian Calvet , Frédéric Giraud , Nicola Alessandro Cavalcanti , Fabio Carrillo , Philipp Fürnstahl

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Abstract

Virtual Reality technology, when integrated with Surgical Digital Twins (SDTs), offers significant potential in medical training and surgical planning. We present SurgTwinVR, a VR application that immerses users within an SDT and enables them to navigate a high-fidelity virtual replica of the surgical environment. SurgTwinVR is the first VR application to utilize a dynamic 3D environment that is a clone of a real surgery, encompassing the entire surgical scene, including the surgeon, anatomy, and instruments. Our system utilizes a SDT with important improvements for real-time rendering and features to showcase the potential benefits of such an application in surgical education.

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virtual reality surgical digital twins SurgTwinVR medical training surgical planning high-fidelity simulation

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@article{arxiv.2409.11014,
  title  = {Virtual Reality for Immersive Education in Orthopedic Surgery Digital Twins},
  author = {Jonas Hein and Jan Grunder and Lilian Calvet and Frédéric Giraud and Nicola Alessandro Cavalcanti and Fabio Carrillo and Philipp Fürnstahl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.11014},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Accepted demo at ISMAR 2024. Project page: https://jonashein.github.io/surgerydigitization/

Virtual Reality for Immersive Education in Orthopedic Surgery Digital Twins

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