From Observations to Collaborative Simulation: Application to Surgical Training

Abstract

In surgical training, Virtual Reality systems are mainly focused on technical surgical skills, leaving out procedural aspects. Our project aims at providing a novel approach to the use of Virtual Reality addressing this point. In our project, we propose an innovative workflow to integrate a generic model of the procedure, generated from real case surgery observation, as the scenarios model in the virtual reality training system. In this article we present how the generic procedure model is generated and its integration in the virtual environment.