Introducing a groundbreaking technology project tailored to support students and scientists alike, fostering innovation and collaboration in the academic sphere.
With increasing quality and resolution in medical imaging the 3D reconstruction of organs becomes within clinical reach. Medical imaging provides many 2D (DICOM) views on the 3D body, leaving the 3D interpretation to the medical experts. Recent developments enable the 3D reconstruction of organs with many available segmentation tools. Although segmentation software provides such capabilities, for clinical practice and education such tools are too complex to be used. To train medical students and staff to deal with these advanced medical imaging based reconstructions, an easy to use tool and educational material needs to be developed.
These 3D reconstructions provide many advantages in clinical evaluation, diagnosis and preprocedural planning (Proniewska, Khokhar et al. 2021). However, there are no standard clinical tools to provide a 3D segmentation alongside with the medical imaging. Such tool could bring the 3D segmentation a step closer to the clinical workflow and thus improve the clinical diagnostic, prognostic and procedural planning within a clinical workflow. The development of an easy to use imaging/3D segmentation model tool opens a new way to teach this complex anatomy of the heart and the procedures executed on the heart. In this project educational cases using the aimed educational tool will be developed.
Integrating various medical imaging modalities with 3D cardiac anatomy for medical education of complex cases.
Developing educational material and tools using mixed reality technology to enhance understanding and retention of complex cardiac concepts.
The 3D educational medical imaging 3d.edu.med tool (iTeam 3D-MR) aims to provide an 3D viewing tool easy to use by multiple students and staff, to promote the teaching of complex cardiac patients treatment. To ensure the embedding of the software in the clinical curriculum the project also will develop educational clinical cases in which the educational 3d.edu.med tool (iTeam 3D-MR) will play an important role. For example the preparation of a surgical procedure on a congenital patient requires a good anatomical reconstruction of the heart and surrounding tissues. This can be viewed and evaluated but the 3d.edu.med tool(iTeam 3D-MR) software. The educational cases needs to be provided by the clinical partners in this project.
To enhance the use of the developed educational material the case reports material needs to be an accessible database for medical student and staff in the field of cardiology. The primary aim is to share professionals’ clinical knowledge and skills through one of the most traditional medical experiences sharing form based on modern and anywhere available web services and technologies, involving 3D modeling and 3D projector of medical data. Doing so, the clinical case reports that still play an invaluable role in case-based learning and in building of ability of students and medical staff to think critically, can be used not only to learn and practice theoretical and practical consequences of clinicians’ decisions, but also to prepare students for bedside teaching. To develop a generally acceptable 3D teaching 3d.edu.med tool (iTeam3D-MR), it has to be specify both the structure of education suitable materials and the platform for simple creation and sharing of such electronic outputs in 3D. As the result, the database of first clinical case reports will be implemented into the information technologies infrastructure at grant partners platform of results of EU (at the UJMC in Krakow, Poland; Sapienza University, Rome, Italy; and UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands). It is offered to medical students and staff in the form of web-based portal.
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