Augmented Reality-Assisted Pediatric Surgery: A Machine Learning-Based Approach for Enhancing Accuracy
Numerous advancements have been identified as potentially disruptive innovations in the surgical workplace as surgical workflow continues to improve in the digital age. The application of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) within health care to enhance the use of data for medical reasons is unavoidable given their rapid expansion in availability, affordability, and accessibility. Using augmented reality may help paediatric orthopaedic and trauma surgeons overcome the difficult problem of comprehending the spatial linkages among the implants, anatomy, and their instruments. As needs be, the current examination proposes another AR of the surgical scene that deftly incorporates the various information sources given by a mobile C-arm and a Kinect RGB-depth sensor. This paper present a learning-based worldview to perceive the significant items or life structures in both Kinect and data of X-ray, and to produce an object unambiguous pixel-wise alpha guide that permits importance based combination of the X-ray pictures and the video inside a solitary view. We demonstrate very encouraging results in 10 simulated procedures with the goal of giving physicians a better grasp of the surgical environment and an enhanced perception.
Authors
- Shanthi Narla (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0228-3262)
- Md Nurul Absur
- Sai Ganesh
- Sumedha Bhardwaj (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3649-3132)
- Shuvo Dutta
- J B Hyzil
Institutions
- The Graduate Center, CUNY (US)
- Western Michigan University (US)
- University of Kerala (IN)
- Dehradun Institute of Technology University (IN)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-02-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1109/ce2ct64011.2025.10941631
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Surgical Simulation and Training
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.02