Development and evaluation of virtual reality medical training system for anatomy education

Falah, Jannat; Charissis, Vassilis; Khan, Soheeb; Chan, Warren; Alfalah, Salsabeel F.M.; Harrison, David K.

Abstract

Medical education is a dynamic field that witnesses continuous evolutionand development. The employment of Virtual Reality (VR) based visualization andtraining environments in the delivery of anatomy teaching transfers the learningexperience from one that involves memorising the structures without a true understanding of the 3-Dimensional (3D) relations, to a process that involves a thorough understanding of the structure based on visualisation rather than memorising, which makes the learning process more efficient and enjoyable, and less time consuming. This paper describes the development of a Virtual Reality and 3D visualisation system for anatomy teaching. The developed system offers a real-time 3D representation of the heart in an interactive VR environment that provides self-directed learning and assessment tools through a variety of interfaces and functionalities. To ensure the accuracy and precision of the developed system it was evaluated by a group of medical professionals.

Citation

Falah, J., Charissis, V., Khan, S., Chan, W., Alfalah, S. F., & Harrison, D. K. (2014, August). Development and evaluation of virtual reality medical training system for anatomy education. Presented at Intelligent Systems in Science and Information 2014, London

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: Intelligent Systems in Science and Information 2014
• Start Date: Aug 27, 2014
• End Date: Aug 29, 2014
• Online Publication Date: Feb 14, 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Deposit Date: Apr 27, 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 369-383
• Series Title: Studies in Computational Intelligence
• Series Number: 591
• Book Title: Intelligent Systems in Science and Information 2014
• ISBN: 978-3-319-14653-9
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14654-6_23
• Keywords: medical education; virtual reality; anatomy; 3D visualisation; heart anatomy