Chiara Pes
Augmented reality for surgical planning: integrating HoloLens 2 for 3D visualization and interaction with patient-specific anatomical models.
Rel. Massimo Salvi, Francesco Marzola, Alberto Arezzo, Kristen Mariko Meiburger. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Biomedica, 2025
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Augmented reality (AR) is an emerging technology with significant potential to improve preoperative surgical planning by optimizing spatial understanding of patient-specific anatomy. This thesis presents the development and initial evaluation of an integrated system leveraging Microsoft HoloLens 2 for immersive 3D visualization and interaction with anatomical models reconstructed from thoracic computed tomography (CT) scans, specifically for planning lung biopsy procedures. The system architecture is based on an integration between the 3D Slicer medical image computing platform and a custom Unity application developed for HoloLens 2. Communication is facilitated by the OpenIGTLink protocol, enabling dynamic streaming of CT slice data and spatial transformations.
Anatomical structures, including lungs, nodules, the bronchial tree, vasculature, and ribs, are automatically segmented from CT data using a nnU-Net, TotalSegmentator, within 3D Slicer and subsequently exported as 3D models
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