Augmented Reality for Medicine: The New Frontiers

Our focus through this paper is to explore the new frontiers of AR applications in the medical domain. Patient safety is of paramount importance in medical practice. All medical procedures and learning is designed to achieve zero margin for error. This requires proficiency and efficiency at various stages learning and practice, rangingfroma student’s thorough understanding of complex physiological systems and mastery in visualizing the spatial relationship of anatomy, a surgeon’s undivided attention in the operating Room and physiotherapist to designeffective exercises to help in patient recovery. Devices like the HoloLens allow the interventionist to manipulate three-dimensional holographic information in real time to obtain instantaneous feedback about the patient. Thus, we strongly believe that AR has a significant potential in medical domain. Consequently, we have spent significant efforts in creating awareness of some of the current state of the art applications of Augmented reality in the medical domain, attention is paid to the recent, specifically after 2016, applications of Head Mounted Display based AR devices in the medical domain.

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