TY - JOUR
T1 - On mixed reality environments for minimally invasive therapy guidance
T2 - Systems architecture, successes and challenges in their implementation from laboratory to clinic
AU - Linte, Cristian A.
AU - Davenport, Katherine P.
AU - Cleary, Kevin
AU - Peters, Craig A
AU - Vosburgh, Kirby G.
AU - Navab, Nassir
AU - Edwards, Philip Eddie
AU - Jannin, Pierre
AU - Peters, Terry M.
AU - Holmes, David R.
AU - Robb, Richard A.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank our colleagues and clinical collaborators at Mayo Clinic, Robarts Research Institute, the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard University, Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London, Center for Computer-Assisted Medical Procedures and Augmented Reality at the Technical University of Munich, and the INSERM Research group at Université de Rénnes I for their invaluable support. We also acknowledge funding for this work provided by: the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (MOP-179298), the Surgical Planning Laboratory IGT and AMIGO Project Grants (P41 RR019703 and P41 EB015898), the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the Cancer Research UK (Project A8087/C24520), the Pelican Foundation PAM project, and the National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB-EB002834).
PY - 2013/3
Y1 - 2013/3
N2 - Mixed reality environments for medical applications have been explored and developed over the past three decades in an effort to enhance the clinician's view of anatomy and facilitate the performance of minimally invasive procedures. These environments must faithfully represent the real surgical field and require seamless integration of pre- and intra-operative imaging, surgical instrument tracking, and display technology into a common framework centered around and registered to the patient. However, in spite of their reported benefits, few mixed reality environments have been successfully translated into clinical use. Several challenges that contribute to the difficulty in integrating such environments into clinical practice are presented here and discussed in terms of both technical and clinical limitations. This article should raise awareness among both developers and end-users toward facilitating a greater application of such environments in the surgical practice of the future.
AB - Mixed reality environments for medical applications have been explored and developed over the past three decades in an effort to enhance the clinician's view of anatomy and facilitate the performance of minimally invasive procedures. These environments must faithfully represent the real surgical field and require seamless integration of pre- and intra-operative imaging, surgical instrument tracking, and display technology into a common framework centered around and registered to the patient. However, in spite of their reported benefits, few mixed reality environments have been successfully translated into clinical use. Several challenges that contribute to the difficulty in integrating such environments into clinical practice are presented here and discussed in terms of both technical and clinical limitations. This article should raise awareness among both developers and end-users toward facilitating a greater application of such environments in the surgical practice of the future.
KW - Augmented and mixed reality environments
KW - Clinical translation
KW - Image-guided interventions
KW - Minimally invasive surgery and therapy
KW - Virtual
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U2 - 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2012.12.002
DO - 10.1016/j.compmedimag.2012.12.002
M3 - Article
C2 - 23632059
AN - SCOPUS:84876998702
SN - 0895-6111
VL - 37
SP - 83
EP - 97
JO - Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
JF - Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
IS - 2
ER -