Immersive Haptic Eye Tele-Surgery Training Simulation

As medical surgery is usually a complex and complicated procedure, medical trainees must acquire specific skills and plenty of experience before attempting to perform such a procedure in a real-world setting. The goal of surgical simulation is to provide high-fidelity training to increase the diffusion of innovative and less-invasive procedures while decreasing the surgeon´s learning curve. The paper presents an immersive hapto-virtual training simulation for eye cataract surgery. The system architecture and technology and design techniques are addressed. Finally the paper concludes with future work to improve the application.