Surgical simulator systems

		View of the complete OR

The primary driving application of this task is the development of a generic surgical training simulator for hysteroscopy. A key target is to go beyond rehearsal of basic manipulative skills, and enable training of procedural skills like decision making and problem solving. An object-oriented architecture for the simulator platform has been developed and a convenient and easy to use multi-threading model for the target SMP-machine has been implemented. The prototype has been augmented with several modules developed within other Co-Me projects. These modules provide for instance simulation of soft tissue deformation, collision detection and response, cutting, as well as a hysteroscopy tool as input device to the simulator. In addition a CFD module has been integrated for blood flow simulation. All these modules fit very well into the proposed software architecture and could be integrated with only minor modifications. Moreover, we replicated an OR in our lab and provide standard hysteroscopic tools for interaction. In this setting, the training starts, when the trainee enters the OR, and it ends, when she leaves the room. The complete system is depicted in the Figure.