Creating a Digital Twin of Spinal Surgery: A Proof of Concept

arXiv:2403.16736v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Surgery digitalization is the process of creating a virtual replica of real-world surgery, also referred to as a surgical digital twin (SDT). It has significant applications in various fields such as education and training, surgical planning, and automation of surgical tasks. Given their detailed representations of surgical procedures, SDTs are an ideal foundation for machine learning methods, enabling automatic generation of training data. In robotic surgery, SDTs can provide realistic virtual environments in which robots …

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