Abstract
3D medical images reconstructed from MRI or CT images are currently used in various applications for diagnosis and for treatment. The application of medical virtual reality techniques to 3D images has a large potential to provide future medical treatments through telemedicine. Surgery simulation is one of the main applications of medical virtual reality. A surgery simulation system focuses on the requirements of reality, real-time visual and haptic feedbacks, quantitative deformation, representation of a tissue's internal structures such as blood vessels, and on the various forms of manipulation. By using such a simulation system, surgeons are able to trial various approaches to an operation and so carefully plan procedures before the actual surgery. This paper introduced a surgery simulation system using a patient-specific model that takes our research as an example, especially a system for laparotomy and laparoscopic surgery, a tele-surgery simulation system and surgery simulation for robotic surgery training.
