Collaborative Reseearch: US IGNITE: EAGER: Exploring Ultrafast Networks for Training Surgeons Using Virtual Reality Based Environments

合作研究：US IGNITE：EAGER：探索使用基于虚拟现实的环境培训外科医生的超快网络

• 批准号: 1257803
• 负责人: Joe Cecil
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Oklahoma State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2017-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1257803&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Reseearch; US; IGNITE; EAGER

This project will develop and demonstrate new virtual reality based applications for training medical residents and doctors in microsurgical techniques using the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) infrastructure and capabilities. The microsurgical virtual environment will enable students to learn the appropriate way of handling the soft tissues and developing the needed surgical skills needed to become competent micro surgeons. Currently, surgical training is usually limited face-to-face situations where the expert surgeon and the trainees are in the same room performing intricate procedures, typically on cadavers. Since the experts in microsurgical techniques are not available in most parts of the country, such training is not readily available to many medical students. The new virtual reality based surgical training application will address this challenge by eliminating the need for the experts and the trainees to be co-located. The GENI-enabled ultra-fast networking capabilities will be exploited to demonstrate a breakthrough application where a microsurgical expert in El Paso, Texas will teach medical residents in Oklahoma and Wisconsin. The application will exploit cloud-based framework to allow other sites to be easily integrated into the system so that trainees at many distributed locations can be trained simultaneously.Broader Impact:The ability to provide specialized surgical training to students in distributed locations through a virtual reality environment can revolutionize medical education outside of major centers of excellence. The project will address issues of access to specialized health care by providing specialist training and access to higher education without geographical limitations. This project also lays the foundation for more significant telemedicine applications in which doctors offer healthcare services including surgical and non surgical consultations which can include consultations with peer doctors and/or patients at distant locations.

该项目将使用全球网络创新环境（GENI）基础架构和能力来开发并展示基于虚拟现实的新应用程序，以培训医学居民和医生在显微外科技术中进行培训。显微外科虚拟环境将使学生能够学习处理软组织并发展成为合格的微型外科医生所需的手术技能的适当方法。 目前，手术训练通常是面对面的情况有限的，专家外科医生和受训人员在同一房间进行复杂的程序，通常在尸体上。由于该国大部分地区都无法使用微型外科技术专家，因此许多医学生不容易获得此类培训。新的基于虚拟现实的外科手术培训申请将通过消除专家和受训人员共同确定的需求来应对这一挑战。 支持基因的超快速网络功能将被利用，以展示一项突破性应用程序，在德克萨斯州埃尔帕索的微型外科专家将教俄克拉荷马州和威斯康星州的医疗居民。该应用程序将利用基于云的框架，使其他站点可以轻松地集成到系统中，以便可以同时培训许多分布式位置的受训者。Broader的影响：通过虚拟现实环境为分布式位置的学生提供专门的外科手术培训的能力，可以在卓越的大型卓越中彻底改变卓越的医学教育。 该项目将通过在没有地理限制的情况下提供专业培训和获得高等教育的访问来解决获得专业医疗保健的问题。该项目还为更重要的远程医疗应用奠定了基础，其中医生提供医疗服务，包括手术和非手术咨询，其中可能包括与同伴医生和/或遥远地区的患者进行咨询。