BiopSym: a simulator for enhanced learning of ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy.
This paper describes a simulator of ultrasound-guided prostate biopsies for cancer diagnosis. When performing biopsy series, the clinician has to move the ultrasound probe and to mentally integrate the real-time bi-dimensional images into a three-dimensional (3D) representation of the anatomical environment. Such a 3D representation is necessary to sample regularly the prostate in order to maximize the probability of detecting a cancer if any. To make the training of young physicians easier and faster we developed a simulator that combines images computed from three-dimensional ultrasound recorded data to haptic feedback. The paper presents the first version of this simulator.
TIMC-IMAG Laboratory, UMR 5525 CNRS UJF, Grenoble, France.
Stefano
S
Sclaverano
Grégoire
G
Chevreau
Lucile
L
Vadcard
Pierre
P
Mozer
Jocelyne
J
Troccaz
D001707:Biopsy, Needle / Q000379:methods*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008297:Male; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional / Q000379:methods*