Andreas Nürnberger (1) and Arne Radetzky (2)

(1) University of California, Berkeley
(2) IUL Softwarehouse AG, Holzkirchen, Germany

“Surgiality”

During the training of pilots from year to year more expensive and more complex flight simulators are used and while it is already talked about the usage of simulators for the training of driving novices, surgical training is still performed in traditional ways. This also includes the risky training directly on the patient.
Nevertheless, surgeons rely to an increasing part on automations especially for surgical planning and navigation. More than ever tools for education and training, for planning and simulation play an important role not only for training but also in real surgery. In this talk we give a brief overview of our work in this area, which we call Surgiality. This combination of "surgical" and "virtuality" means the creation of artificial worlds in the computer for training and planning of surgical interventions by using actual patient's datasets.

For further information see http://www.surgiality.com/.

The slides of the presentation can be downloaded from

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~anuernb/slides/SWSS01/surgiality.pdf