International Digital Lab - Virtual Surgery

The Informatics Group, led by Professor Vinesh Raja, has a mission to understand and extend the theory of data capture and extraction of information and wisdom with a particular focus in the engineering, manufacturing and healthcare sectors.

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Engineering informatics deals with customer requirements data and product lifecycle data; manufacturing informatics focuses on process data concerning factory design and layout, machining and assembly processes; whereas healthcare informatics is concerned with data fo demographics, patient records, Picture Archiving and Communications Systems, remote healthcare monitoring, diagnosis, treatment planning and surgery planning.

Current research projects include: * I*PROMS: flexible, re-configurable, fault-tolerant and eco and user-friendly manufacturing systems that can react to customer needs, environmental requirements, design inputs, and material/process/labour availability to manufacture high quality, cost-effective products. * INTUITION: virtual reality and virtual environments for future workspaces. * IWARD: a robot swarm delivering support to oversee activities in healthcare environments, providing a multipurpose, cost-effective and scalable solution to enhance the quality of healthcare. * PhD projects: modelling soft tissues for haptics applications such as virtual surgery; a virtual breast model for teaching breast examination to medical students and also for self examination by women; and developing a new rehabilitation environment for patients with upper limb impairments.

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Science & Technology

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• warwick
• virtual
• surgery

[MrSymposier]

Amazing technology !!! I think this system will be a great tool for medical students and for surgeons to learn and practice in a very interactive way. Its great how computer technology used along with medical knowledge, are creating new powerful tools and techniques to improve the way Medicine is learned and practiced. Other useful videos on Medical Technology are available at Symposier site, visit It (Physicians only).