{"674511":{"#nid":"674511","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Partners with Children\u2019s Hospital on New Heart Surgery Planning Tool","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECardiologists and surgeons could soon have a new mobile augmented reality (AR) tool to improve collaboration in surgical planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EARCollab is an iOS AR application designed for doctors to interact with patient-specific 3D heart models in a shared environment. It is the first surgical planning tool that uses multi-user mobile AR in iOS.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe application\u2019s collaborative feature overcomes limitations in traditional surgical modeling and planning methods. This offers patients better, personalized care from doctors who plan and collaborate with the tool.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers partnered with Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) in ARCollab\u2019s development.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/github.com\/twixupmysleeve\u0022\u003EPratham Mehta\u003C\/a\u003E, a computer science major, led the group\u2019s research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe have conducted two trips to CHOA for usability evaluations with cardiologists and surgeons. The overall feedback from ARCollab users has been positive,\u201d Mehta said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThey all enjoyed experimenting with it and collaborating with other users. They also felt like it had the potential to be useful in surgical planning.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2402.05075\u0022\u003EARCollab\u003C\/a\u003E\u2019s collaborative environment is the tool\u2019s most novel feature. It allows surgical teams to study and plan together in a virtual workspace, regardless of location.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EARCollab supports a toolbox of features for doctors to inspect and interact with their patients\u0027 AR heart models. With a few finger gestures, users can scale and rotate, \u201cslice\u201d into the model, and modify a slicing plane to view omnidirectional cross-sections of the heart.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDeveloping ARCollab on iOS works twofold. This streamlines deployment and accessibility by making it available on the iOS App Store and Apple devices. Building ARCollab on Apple\u2019s peer-to-peer network framework ensures the functionality of the AR components. It also lessens the learning curve, especially for experienced AR users.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EARCollab overcomes traditional surgical planning practices of using physical heart models. Producing physical models is time-consuming, resource-intensive, and irreversible compared to digital models. It is also difficult for surgical teams to plan together since they are limited to studying a single physical model.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDigital and AR modeling is growing as an alternative to physical models.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2208.10639\u0022\u003ECardiacAR\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is one such tool the group has already created.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHowever, digital platforms lack multi-user features essential for surgical teams to collaborate during planning. ARCollab\u2019s multi-user workspace progresses the technology\u2019s potential as a mass replacement for physical modeling.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOver the past year and a half, we have been working on incorporating collaboration into our prior work with CardiacAR,\u201d Mehta said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis involved completely changing the codebase, rebuilding the entire app and its features from the ground up in a newer AR framework that was better suited for collaboration and future development.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIts interactive and visualization features, along with its novelty and innovation, led the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/research\/chi-2024\/\u0022\u003EConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024)\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to accept ARCollab for presentation. The conference occurs May 11-16 in Honolulu.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECHI is considered the most prestigious conference for human-computer interaction and one of the top-ranked conferences in computer science.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EM.S. student\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/harshakaranth.com\/\u0022\u003EHarsha Karanth\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and alumnus\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/alexanderyang.me\/\u0022\u003EAlex Yang\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;(CS 2022, M.S. CS 2023) co-authored the paper with Mehta. They study under\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poloclub.github.io\/\u0022\u003EPolo Chau\u003C\/a\u003E, an associate professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech group partnered with Timothy Slesnick and Fawwaz Shaw from CHOA on ARCollab\u2019s development.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWorking with the doctors and having them test out versions of our application and give us feedback has been the most important part of the collaboration with CHOA,\u201d Mehta said.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThese medical professionals are experts in their field. We want to make sure to have features that they want and need, and that would make their job easier.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECardiologists and surgeons could soon have a new mobile augmented reality (AR) tool to improve collaboration in surgical planning.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EARCollab is an iOS AR application designed for doctors to interact with patient-specific 3D heart models in a shared environment. It is the first surgical planning tool that uses multi-user mobile AR in iOS.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe application\u2019s collaborative feature overcomes limitations in traditional surgical modeling and planning methods. This offers patients better, personalized care from doctors who plan and collaborate with the tool.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech researchers partnered with Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) in ARCollab\u2019s development.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Cardiologists and surgeons could soon have a new mobile augmented reality (AR) tool to improve collaboration in surgical planning."}],"uid":"36319","created_gmt":"2024-05-06 00:16:54","changed_gmt":"2024-12-09 17:36:57","author":"Bryant Wine","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-05-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"673978":{"id":"673978","type":"image","title":"A pediatrician listens to a young patient\u0027s heartbeat with a stethoscope","body":"\u003Cp\u003EAn Adobe Stock image of a pediatrician listening to a young patient\u0027s heartbeat with a stethoscope.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1715354643","gmt_created":"2024-05-10 15:24:03","changed":"1715354643","gmt_changed":"2024-05-10 15:24:03","alt":"A pediatrician listens to a young patient\u0027s heartbeat with a stethoscope.","file":{"fid":"257440","name":"AdobeStock_285408398 (1).jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/05\/10\/AdobeStock_285408398%20%281%29.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/05\/10\/AdobeStock_285408398%20%281%29.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":104275,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/05\/10\/AdobeStock_285408398%20%281%29.jpeg?itok=pgzOyLoe"}},"673948":{"id":"673948","type":"image","title":"ARCollab.png","body":null,"created":"1714954623","gmt_created":"2024-05-06 00:17:03","changed":"1714954623","gmt_changed":"2024-05-06 00:17:03","alt":"CHI 2024 ARCollab","file":{"fid":"257405","name":"ARCollab.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/05\/05\/ARCollab.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/05\/05\/ARCollab.png","mime":"image\/png","size":203974,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/05\/05\/ARCollab.png?itok=uo3me70m"}}},"media_ids":["673978","673948"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/georgia-tech-partners-childrens-hospital-new-heart-surgery-planning-tool","title":"Georgia Tech Partners with Children\u2019s Hospital on New Heart Surgery Planning Tool"}],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"138","name":"Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"192863","name":"go-ai"},{"id":"10199","name":"Daily Digest"},{"id":"7846","name":"Georgia Tech Office of the Provost"},{"id":"654","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"166983","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"2556","name":"artificial intelligence"},{"id":"9167","name":"machine learning"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"193655","name":"Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech"},{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71891","name":"Health and Medicine"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBryant Wine, Communications Officer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:bryant.wine@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ebryant.wine@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}