Personalized augmented reality for anatomy education

Ma M, Fallavollita P, Seelbach I, Von Der Heide AM, Euler E, Waschke J, Navab N (2016)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2016

Journal

Clinical Anatomy Wiley-Blackwell

Book Volume: 29

Pages Range: 446-453

Journal Issue: 4

DOI: 10.1002/ca.22675

Abstract

Anatomy education is a challenging but vital element in forming future medical professionals. In this work, a personalized and interactive augmented reality system is developed to facilitate education. This system behaves as a "magic mirror" which allows personalized in-situ visualization of anatomy on the user's body. Real-time volume visualization of a CT dataset creates the illusion that the user can look inside their body. The system comprises a RGB-D sensor as a real-time tracking device to detect the user moving in front of a display. In addition, the magic mirror system shows text information, medical images, and 3D models of organs that the user can interact with. Through the participation of 7 clinicians and 72 students, two user studies were designed to respectively assess the precision and acceptability of the magic mirror system for education. The results of the first study demonstrated that the average precision of the augmented reality overlay on the user body was 0.96 cm, while the results of the second study indicate 86.1% approval for the educational value of the magic mirror, and 91.7% approval for the augmented reality capability of displaying organs in three dimensions. The usefulness of this unique type of personalized augmented reality technology has been demonstrated in this paper. Clin. Anat. 29:446-453, 2016.

Involved external institutions

Technische Universität München (TUM) DE Germany (DE) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) DE Germany (DE) Klinikum der Universität München (Großhadern und Innenstadt) DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Ma, M., Fallavollita, P., Seelbach, I., Von Der Heide, A.M., Euler, E., Waschke, J., & Navab, N. (2016). Personalized augmented reality for anatomy education. Clinical Anatomy, 29(4), 446-453. https://doi.org/10.1002/ca.22675

MLA:

Ma, Meng, et al. "Personalized augmented reality for anatomy education." Clinical Anatomy 29.4 (2016): 446-453.

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