Patient Specific Virtual Reality for Simulation of Spine Procedures: an Intelligent Image Segmentation, Registration and 3-dimensional Visualization in a Unified Virtual Reality Workflow for Image Guided Therapy, and Education - Physician Testing

NCT ID: NCT06714539

Last Updated: 2024-12-03

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 13 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2024-12-02
• Study Completion Date: 2030-12-31

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if patient specific virtual reality (VR) simulations can be used for surgical orthopaedic education in resident and fellow physician populations.

Detailed Description

This project will combine advanced 3d visualization, interaction, medical image segmentation, and registration to create and integrate a virtual reality (VR) model into surgical orthopaedic education. The work has 3 aspects,

1) creating a patient specific 3D model with high accuracy of anatomic structures using patient specific medical imaging in an automated fashion, 2) interacting with 3D models of the patients, allowing the surgical procedures to be performed in virtual reality (including the resection of tissues, and placement of implants), 3) integrating the VR simulator into the surgical education of orthopaedic residents and fellows in training. This platform will reduce the time and cost associated with use of patient specific data, ultimately enabling pre-operative planning, post-procedural assessment and surgical simulation of spine procedures. The technology will improve surgical training, and the options for pre-treatment planning that will lead to better patient care, more efficient use of operating room time, and better trained surgeons.

Conditions

Surgical Education

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Patient Specific Virtual Reality Stimulation

Physician participants will engage with the patient specific virtual reality simulator through multi-player teaching and individual practice modes.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Patient Specific Virtual Reality Stimulation

Intervention Type: DEVICE

A novel virtual reality (VR) simulator for spine procedures that will take patient specific medical imaging (3D scans) and create a virtual patient that surgical procedures can be performed on.

Interventions

Patient Specific Virtual Reality Stimulation

A novel virtual reality (VR) simulator for spine procedures that will take patient specific medical imaging (3D scans) and create a virtual patient that surgical procedures can be performed on.

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Any resident of fellow physician enrolled in the participating site's spine surgery training program.

Exclusion Criteria

• None.

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Sunnybrook Research Institute

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Michael Hardisty

Scientist

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Dr. Michael Hardisty

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Sunnybrook Research Institute

Central Contacts

Dr. Michael Hardisty

Role: CONTACT

m.hardisty@utoronto.ca

416-480-5790

Ms. Nivedita Upadhyay

Role: CONTACT

OrthoRes@sunnybrook.ca

416-480-4285

References

Chen T, Zhang Y, Ding C, Ting K, Yoon S, Sahak H, Hope A, McLachlin S, Crawford E, Hardisty M, Larouche J, Finkelstein J. Virtual reality as a learning tool in spinal anatomy and surgical techniques. N Am Spine Soc J. 2021 Apr 14;6:100063. doi: 10.1016/j.xnsj.2021.100063. eCollection 2021 Jun.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

PMID: 35141628 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

6489

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id