A Collaborative Extended Reality Prototype for 3D Surgical Planning and Visualization

TL;DR

This paper introduces a collaborative XR prototype designed for 3D surgical planning and visualization, integrating immersive planning, cloud data management, and stereoscopic displays to enhance medical collaboration.

Contribution

It presents a novel integrated XR system for collaborative surgical planning, combining multiple modules and demonstrating its effectiveness through user studies.

Findings

Effective in liver resection planning

Enhances collaboration and visualization

Provides practical insights for future medical XR

Abstract

We present a collaborative extended reality (XR) prototype for 3D surgical planning and visualization. Our system consists of three key modules: XR-based immersive surgical planning, cloud-based data management, and coordinated stereoscopic 3D displays for interactive visualization. We describe the overall workflow, core functionalities, implementations and setups. By conducting user studies on a liver resection surgical planning case, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our prototype and provide practical insights to inspire future advances in medical XR collaboration.