Simulation to Augment Standardized Patients in Obstetric Ultrasound Training

Date of Award

Fall 2007

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

Computational Modeling & Simulation Engineering

Program/Concentration

Modeling and Simulation

Committee Director

Frederic D. McKenzie

Committee Member

Jiang Li

Committee Member

Yuzhong Shen

Call Number for Print

Special Collections LD4331.E53 G85 2007

Abstract

Standardized patients are actors used in medical training to teach and eval11atc clinical skills of students prior to their using these skills on an actual patient. Augmented Reality is a relatively new technology that can be used to augment standardized patients with abnonnalitie8 and pathologies that they cannot portray themselves as normal healthy human beings. In our project, we sought to augment standardized patients with a 12-week- old fetus in order to train and possibly evaluate medical students and professionals in performing obstetric ultrasound procedures and interpreting the corresponding ultrasound image results.

The software library ARToolkit provided the framework for our computer application, utilizing a visual tracking system that consisted of merely a single webcam and several black and white pattern targets. OpenGL functions were used to render three-dimensional virtual objects and apply two-dimensional textures. More complex anatomical shapes were created and modified using 3ds Max software and then imported into om program during execution. Our final application featured one view displaying the video frames with superimposed vi1tual objects, another view exposing all of the virtual objects in three-dimensional space, and a final view showing two-dimensional ultrasound output.

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DOI

10.25777/kmyg-cf11

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