Faculty Advisor or Committee Member
Loris Fichera, Committee Chair
Faculty Advisor or Committee Member
Gregory S Fischer, Committee Member
Faculty Advisor or Committee Member
Dmitry Korkin, Advisor
Identifier
etd-042519-151844
Abstract
The overarching purpose of this research is to understand whether Mixed Reality can enhance a surgeon’s manipulations skills during minimally invasive procedures. Minimally-invasive surgery (MIS) utilizes small cuts in the skin - or sometimes natural orifices - to deploy instruments inside a patient’s body, while a live video feed of the surgical site is provided by an endoscopic camera and displayed on a screen. MIS is associated with many benefits: small scars, less pain and shorter hospitalization time as compared to traditional open surgery. However, these benefits come at a cost: because surgeons have to work by looking at a monitor, and not down on their own hands, MIS disrupts their eye-hand coordination and makes even simple surgical maneuvers challenging to perform. In this study, we wish to use Mixed Reality technology to superimpose anatomical models over the surgical site and explore if it can be used to mitigate this problem.
Publisher
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Degree Name
MS
Department
Robotics Engineering
Project Type
Thesis
Date Accepted
2019-04-23
Copyright Statement
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Accessibility
Unrestricted
Repository Citation
Murlidaran, Shravan, "A mixed reality framework for surgical navigation: approach and preliminary results" (2019). Masters Theses (All Theses, All Years). 1296.
https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-theses/1296
Subjects
Image Guidance, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Mixed Reality