EVEREST
Project Info
EVEREST Project
Funding ANR
Objective Loco-Regional Anesthesia simulator
Date 01.11.2013 — 31.10.2016
Contact stephane.cotin@inria.fr , frederick.roy@inria.fr , remi.bessard_duparc@inria.fr
Website http://rasimas.eu
People Involved
Research Director
R&D Software Engineer
Project Description
EVEREST research project funded by ANR (l’Agence National de la Recherche) is a project that aims at creation of Virtual Platform for Surgical Training.
In this context, Flexible endoscopy is a minimally invasive surgical technique that remains very challenging to learn. We have developed a first version of a training simulator using advanced physics and real-time computation. A final prototype of the simulator is scheduled for delivery mid-2019.
The projects consists of the following steps:
- Development of the endoscopy simulator: Ex-vivo, in-vivo feasibility study with Xsens (operator) and Aurora tracking systems (endoscope).
- Development of the tracking method.
- Validation of a ‘machine learning’ and ‘dynamic time warping’ method for movements recognition during endoscopic gestures.
- Writing of a clinical protocol «Study of both operator and endoscope movements during digestive endoscopy ».
Our team is a partner for the organization of flexible endoscopy courses by prototyping a first version of a low cost simulator of flexible endoscopy based on an hardware component (developed in collaboration with the University of Twente, the Netherlands) and a software component simulating the movement of the flexible endoscope and the interactions with its environment.
We are also involved in real-time simulation of the parametric endoscope from real-life experiments, in a free work space.
Through a collaboration with ToysFilm company the development of a serious-gaming version of this simulator is underway, aiming at training endoscopy skills with a funny/challenging virtual and easy accessible tool.
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