Extended Reality and Artificial Intelligence

Ponente: Lucio Tommaso Paolis, Department of Engineering for Innovation, University of Salento, Italy

Título: "Extended Reality and Artificial Intelligence: Transforming Medicine and Wellbeing"

Resumen:

eXtended Reality (XR) is an umbrella term representing Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR)

In medicine and surgery, XR technologies make available new tools for the definition of the diagnosis by translating the information contained in medical images into a 3-dimensional virtual representation of the patient that is a realistic replica of living patient with the actual pathologies. This has allowed the development of a new form of medical education and the use of patient-specific surgical simulators permits to train and rehearse the surgical procedures without any risks for the patient.

The combination of XR and AI technology provide systems that help surgeons in the intra-operative phase by means of the overlapping of virtual information on the real patient and permit to perform the tasks in ways that are both faster and safer. These applications provide surgeon with a sort of “X-ray vision” of the patient’s internal anatomy and have the potential to bring the advantages of the open-surgery visualization also in minimally invasive surgery.

The aim of this talk is to present the new applications of the eXtended Reality and Artificial Intelligence technologies in medicine and surgery and discuss on the clinical benefits and limitations.