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Damage Assessment In Aging Structures Using Augmented Reality, Omar Zuhair Awadallah, Ayan Sadhu
Damage Assessment In Aging Structures Using Augmented Reality, Omar Zuhair Awadallah, Ayan Sadhu
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Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is the assessment of bridges and observation of data regarding these bridges over time to monitor their evolution and detect the presence of any possible damages. However, existing methods to perform structural inspections in bridges are high in cost, time-consuming and risky. Inspectors use expensive equipment to reach a certain area of the bridge to inspect it, and at different heights, this can pose a risk to the inspector’s safety. This study aims to find cheaper, faster, and safer ways to perform structural inspections using augmented reality and artificial intelligence. The developed system uses a machine …
Augmented Reality Simulation Modules For Evd Placement Training And Planning Aids, Hamza Waleed Ghandorh
Augmented Reality Simulation Modules For Evd Placement Training And Planning Aids, Hamza Waleed Ghandorh
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When a novice neurosurgeon performs a psychomotor surgical task (e.g., tool navigation into brain structures), a potential risk of damaging healthy tissues and eloquent brain structures is unavoidable. When novices make multiple hits, thus a set of undesirable trajectories is created, and resulting in the potential for surgical complications. Thus, it is important that novices not only aim for a high-level of surgical mastery but also receive deliberate training in common neurosurgical procedures and underlying tasks. Surgical simulators have emerged as an adequate candidate as effective method to teach novices in safe and free-error training environments. The design of neurosurgical …
Performance Factors In Neurosurgical Simulation And Augmented Reality Image Guidance, Ryan Armstrong
Performance Factors In Neurosurgical Simulation And Augmented Reality Image Guidance, Ryan Armstrong
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Virtual reality surgical simulators have seen widespread adoption in an effort to provide safe, cost-effective and realistic practice of surgical skills. However, the majority of these simulators focus on training low-level technical skills, providing only prototypical surgical cases. For many complex procedures, this approach is deficient in representing anatomical variations that present clinically, failing to challenge users’ higher-level cognitive skills important for navigation and targeting. Surgical simulators offer the means to not only simulate any case conceivable, but to test novel approaches and examine factors that influence performance. Unfortunately, there is a void in the literature surrounding these questions. This …
The Role Of Visualization, Force Feedback, And Augmented Reality In Minimally Invasive Heart Valve Repair, Maria E. Currie
The Role Of Visualization, Force Feedback, And Augmented Reality In Minimally Invasive Heart Valve Repair, Maria E. Currie
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New cardiovascular techniques have been developed to address the unique requirements of high risk, elderly, surgical patients with heart valve disease by avoiding both sternotomy and cardiopulmonary bypass. However, these technologies pose new challenges in visualization, force application, and intracardiac navigation. Force feedback and augmented reality (AR) can be applied to minimally invasive mitral valve repair and transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) techniques to potentially surmount these challenges. Our study demonstrated shorter operative times with three dimensional (3D) visualization compared to two dimensional (2D) visualization; however, both experts and novices applied significantly more force to cardiac tissue during 3D robotics-assisted …
Visual Perception And Cognition In Image-Guided Intervention, Kamyar Abhari
Visual Perception And Cognition In Image-Guided Intervention, Kamyar Abhari
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Surgical image visualization and interaction systems can dramatically affect the efficacy and efficiency of surgical training, planning, and interventions. This is even more profound in the case of minimally-invasive surgery where restricted access to the operative field in conjunction with limited field of view necessitate a visualization medium to provide patient-specific information at any given moment. Unfortunately, little research has been devoted to studying human factors associated with medical image displays and the need for a robust, intuitive visualization and interaction interfaces has remained largely unfulfilled to this day. Failure to engineer efficient medical solutions and design intuitive visualization interfaces …