Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Robotics in surgical procedures of the liver

Medical image processing led to a major improvement of patient care. The 3D modeling of patients from their CT-scan or MRI thus allows a better surgical planning. Simulation offers the opportunity to train the surgical gesture before carrying it out. And finally, augmented reality provides surgeons with a view in transparency of their patient which, in the future, will allow to obtain automation of the most complex gestures. We present our latest results in these different fields of research applied to surgical procedures of the liver.

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