VR Training Simulator for Cardiac Catheter Ablation Procedure
Arrhythmia refers to abnormalities of the heart rhythm, and it is considered a life-threatening pathology. Catheter ablation is a minimally invasive procedure which provides the best therapeutic outcomes to cure the arrhythmia. The procedure consists of a series of intraoperative and training challenges that could potentially affect the procedure outcome. This research project examines how Extended Reality (XR) technologies (AR/VR) can be used to improve the cardiac catheter ablation procedure for electrophysiologists with a tool called CardiacEPX.
Nisal Udawatta, Craig Anslow, and Brian Robinson. XR for Improving Cardiac Ablation Procedure. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST), Christchurch, New Zealand, 2023.
