Abstract
Training is an effective way to acquire learning. Recently, virtual reality systems have been proposed and developed to provide training in medical procedures. This work presents the SITEG, a virtual reality simulator for education in the practice of gynaecological examinations. The SITEG offers a virtual environment where the user can practice the two steps present in a real exam and learn different stages of diseases like Herpes and Human papillomavirus. For that, the system integrates stereoscopic view and a haptic device to allow the identification of malignancies commonly found in this kind of examination. Attached to the simulator there is an assessment tool to classify the user training.
This work is supported by FINEP (Research and Projects Financing) under grant 01-04-1054-000 and CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) under grant 506480/2004-6.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Burdea, G., Coiffet, P.: Virtual Reality Technology. Wiley, Chichester (2003)
Satava, R.: Medicine 2001: The King is Dead. In: VR Conf. Proc. (2000)
Satava, R.: Surgical Education and Surgical Simulation. World J. Surg 25(11), 1484–1489 (2000)
Burdea, G., Patounakis, G., Popescu, V., Weiss, R.: Virtual Reality-Based Training for the Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 46(10), 1253–1260 (1999)
Dinsmore, M., Langrana, N., Burdea, G., Ladeji, J.: Virtual Reality Training for Palpation of Subsurface Tumors. In: IEEE Int. Symp. on VR and App, pp. 54–60 (1997)
Voss, G., et al.: Lahystotrain – Intelligent Training System for Laparoscopy and Hysteroscopy. Studies in Health Tech. and Inf. 70, 359–364 (2000)
Mabrey, J., et al.: Development of a VR Arthroscopic Knee Simulator. Studies in Health Tech. and Informatics 70, 192–194 (2000)
Machado, L., Zuffo, M.: Development and Evaluation of a Simulator of Invasive Procedures in Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 94, 193–195 (2003)
Baillie, S., et al.: Validation of a Bovine Rectal Palpation Simulator for Training Veterinary Students. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 111, 33–36 (2005)
Crossan, A., Brewster, S., Glendye, G.: A Horse Ovary Palpation Simulator for Veterinary Training. In: PURS 2000 Proc., pp. 79–86 (2000)
Cotran, R.S., Kumar, V., Collins, T.: Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease, 6th edn. W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia (2000)
Machado, L., Campos, S., Cunha, I., Moraes, R.: CyberMed: VR for Medical Teaching. In: IFMBE Proc., January 5, 2004, pp. 573–576 (2004)
Moraes, R., Machado, L., Souza, A.: VirtWall: A Concept of Low-Cost Virtual Wall for Immersion in VR. In: Brazilian Symp. on VR, pp. 383–385 (2003)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2006 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
dos Santos Machado, L., de Moraes, R.M. (2006). VR-Based Simulation for the Learning of Gynaecological Examination. In: Pan, Z., Cheok, A., Haller, M., Lau, R.W.H., Saito, H., Liang, R. (eds) Advances in Artificial Reality and Tele-Existence. ICAT 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4282. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11941354_11
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11941354_11
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-49776-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-49779-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)