Bariatric surgeries have become more and more necessary for thousands of people across the country each year who need medical assistance to combat obesity. Two IM体育官网 professors are working on a highly realistic 3D bariatric procedure simulator to help ensure doctors have the best training possible to perform the surgery.
When surgeons learn to perform arthroscopic surgery on a patient's shoulder area, navigating around the confined area and tight structures with instruments inserted through small incisions can be challenging. Adding unintuitive camera orientation and constrained motions further complicates the task.