The exchange of surgical experience and competence nowadays mainly takes place at conferences, through the presentation of surgical videos and through the organisation of visits to each other. Complex manual skills and surgical techniques have to be newly developed, trained and passed on to younger surgeons or colleagues. With the methods currently used, this exchange is very costly and time-consuming.
In this project, VR interaction and visualization techniques will be developed to improve the exchange of experience and competence between medical professionals. In a virtual reality, several users are to train collaboratively – simultaneously and in real time. The positions of locally distributed persons will be determined using hybrid tracking systems based on ultra-wideband technologies and inertial sensors. On this basis, VR training scenarios are designed, implemented in a multi-user communication system and clinically evaluated over distance.
The innovation of this project is the combination of collaborative interaction and visualization techniques with hybrid tracking technologies in an advanced multi-user communication system. The project results should form a basis for the development of future VR-based communication and simulation systems in medicine.
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Publications
2021
Danny Schott, Patrick Saalfeld, Gerd Schmidt, Fabian Joeres, Christian Boedecker, Florentine Hüttl, Hauke Lang, Tobias Huber, Bernhard Preim, Christian Hansen
A VR/AR Environment for Multi-User Liver Anatomy Education Proceedings Article
In: Proc. of IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality (IEEE VR), pp. 296-305, Lisbon, Portugal, 2021.
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Vuthea Chheang, Vikram Apilla, Patrick Saalfeld, Christian Boedecker, Tobias Huber, Florentine Hüttl, Hauke Lang, Bernhard Preim, Christian Hansen
Collaborative VR for Liver Surgery Planning using Wearable Data Gloves: An Interactive Demonstration Proceedings Article
In: Proc. of IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality (IEEE VR), pp. 768, Lisbon, Portugal, 2021.
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Christian Boedecker, Florentine Huettl, Patrick Saalfeld, Marcus Paschold, Werner Kneist, J Baumgart, Bernhard Preim, Christian Hansen, Hauke Lang, Tobias Huber
Using Virtual 3D-models in Surgical Planning: Workflow of an Immersive Virtual Reality Application in Liver Surgery Journal Article
In: Langenbeck`s Archives of Surgery, pp. 911-915, 2021.
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Florentine Huettl, Patrick Saalfeld, Christian Hansen, Bernhard Preim, A Poplawski, Werner Kneist, Hauke Lang, Tobias Huber
Virtual Reality and 3D Printing Improve Preoperative Visualization of 3D Liver Reconstructions - Results from a Preclinical Comparison of Presentation Modalities and User`s Preference Journal Article
In: Annals of Translational Medicine, pp. 1-11, 2021.
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2020
Vuthea Chheang, Virve Fischer, Holger Buggenhagen, Tobias Huber, Florentine Hüttl, Werner Kneist, Bernhard Preim, Patrick Saalfeld, Christian Hansen
Toward interprofessional team training for surgeons and anesthesiologists using virtual reality Journal Article
In: International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2020.
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Sebastian Streuber, Patrick Saalfeld, Katja Podulski, Florentine Hüttl, Tobias Huber, Holger Buggenhagen, Christian Boedecker, Bernhard Preim, Christian Hansen
Training of Patient Handover in Virtual Reality Proceedings Article
In: 19. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Computer- und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie e.V. , 2020.
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2019
Vuthea Chheang, Patrick Saalfeld, Tobias Huber, Florentine Hüttl, Werner Kneist, Bernhard Preim, Christian Hansen
Collaborative Virtual Reality for Laparoscopic Liver Surgery Training Journal Article
In: Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR), 2019.
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year = {2019},
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Oleksii Bashkanov, Patrick Saalfeld, Hariharasudhan Gunasekaran, Mathews Jabaraj, Bernhard Preim, Tobias Huber, Florentine Hüttl, Werner Kneist, Christian Hansen
VR Multi-user Conference Room for Surgery Planning Proceedings Article
In: 18. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Computer- und Roboterassistierte Chirurgie e.V. , pp. 264–268, 2019.
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2018
Florian Heinrich, Sebastian Rohde, Tobias Huber, Markus Paschold, Werner Kneist, Hauke Lang, Bernhard Preim, Christian Hansen
VR-basierte Interaktion mit 3D-Organmodellen zur Planung und Simulation laparoskopischer Eingriffe Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the German Society of Computer- and Robot-Assisted Surgery, pp. 57–62, 2018.
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year = {2018},
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