Hochschulmedizin Zürich is a platform for the University of Zurich, the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) and the University’s hospitals to collaborate on visionary projects. At its annual event, the initiative unveiled its new flagship project Surgent to “set new standards in precision surgery”, writes the ETH in a statement. Under the project, new technologies to improve surgical skills will be developed and clinically tested.
The first step is to survey and document the individual anatomy and tissue of patients by recording images. As a result, the researchers will be able to create interactive maps of the landscapes in which the surgeons later have to work. Next, further models and simulations will be developed to help better plan operations. In a third step, Surgent will use augmented reality (AR) to efficiently support navigation during an operation. According to the ETH, this effectively expands the surgeons’ senses. Artificial intelligence will also make it possible to analyze surgeons’ actions during operations to provide them with the right information at the right time.
The new flagship project builds on other trials ongoing at Balgrist University Hospital, in which mixed-reality glasses feed virtual information into a surgeon’s view during operations. Thanks to holographic navigation using 3-D simulation, a surgeon repairing several vertebrae can use the glasses to position the screws correctly.
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