Document Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
2021
Publication Title
SIMUL 2021, The Thirteenth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation
Pages
1-7
Conference Name
SIMUL 2021, The Thirteenth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation, 4-7 October 2021, Barcelona, Spain
Abstract
This paper presents a nascent collaborative effort to achieve a Virtual Reality (VR)-based, real-time, haptics-driven patient-specific obstetrics simulator. The high-level architecture and preliminary results are presented here; the latter are based on offline birthing simulation developed by team in conjunction with open-source visualization tools. The cornerstones of this simulator will be high-fidelity generic offline birthing simulation, an anatomy-to-image nonrigid registration pipeline exploiting fetal MRI, the open-source interactive medical simulation toolkit IMSTK augmented by high-throughput deep learning-based soft tissue deformation, open-source musculoskeletal dynamics simulation platform SimTk for representing fetal motion. The initial emphasis will be on shoulder dystocia. The two main advantages of VR simulation over the current state of the art, birthing mannequins, are first that VR simulation enables training on several maneuvers by the obstetrics resident while the mannequin typically supports one maneuver, and second, a VR system flexibly supports patient-specific simulation, which is basically infeasible with a mannequin.
Rights
© IARIA 2021. All rights reserved.
Included with the kind written permission of the copyright holder.
Original Publication Citation
Audette, M., Parente, M., Oliveira, D., Arikatla, S., Abuhamad, A., Kakar, R. S., Scerbo, M. W., Tabacu, L., Conery, J., MacGowan, C., & Jorge, R. N. (2021). Toward an interactive, patient-specific, VR-based obstetrics simulator. In F. Herrmann, M. Popescu, & M. A. Audette (Eds.), SIMUL 2021, The Thirteenth International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (pp. 1-7). IARIA Press (Xpert Publishing Services). https://www.thinkmind.org/library/SIMUL/SIMUL_2021/simul_2021_1_10_58001.html
Repository Citation
Audette, Michel A.; Parente, Marco; Oliveira, Dulce; Arikatla, Sreekanth; Abuhamad, Alfred; Kakar, Rumit Singh; Scerbo, Mark; Tabacu, Lucia; Conery, John; MacGowan, Christopher; and Jorge, Renato Natal, "Toward an Interactive, Patient-Specific, VR-Based Obstetrics Simulator" (2021). Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications. 474.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/ece_fac_pubs/474
ORCID
0000-0003-0011-1731 (Audette)
Included in
Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering Commons, Electrical and Computer Engineering Commons, Obstetrics and Gynecology Commons