PPU-friendly Biomechanical Models for Virtual Medicine
Résumé
— The main focus of virtual medicine is to develop and
deliver virtual reality based training and computer enhanced
learning in medicine. Traditionally, medical students learn
diagnostic, therapeutic and surgical skills through difficult clinical
training on live patients. With the change in the health economics,
the advances of minimal invasive surgery (MIS) and shortening of
hospitalization time, source and availability of patient for teaching
become a major problem. Advanced technologies such as virtual
reality, visualization and dedicated hardware accelerator for
graphics or physics processing can help making the learning
process more efficient, engaging and flexible. It is possible to
construct immersive environments to provide realistic
visualization and haptics feedbacks for anatomy education and
surgical training. In this paper, we would like to share our
experiences of using a newly released physics processing unit (PPU)
in developing various virtual medicine applications in virtual
orthopedic trauma surgery, ultrasound guide biopsy training,
virtual neuro-endoscopy and telemedicine