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State or art

In current clinical practice, surgeons prepare for surgery by reading the (textual) radiology (and pathology) report(s), combined with other crucial information like fitness of the patient, co-morbidities of the patient or previous surgeons in that area. From the information in the radiology reports, the surgeon needs to ‘build’ an anatomical model in their mind/brain to know the location of the tumor within the organ, but also the proximity of critical structures like (large) blood vessels.

Background

In the healthcare domain, a trend is ongoing in which advanced visualization techniques are increasingly used, e.g. for educational purposes or for guiding surgeons during surgery. Applications of such advanced visualizations range from home-grown solutions on mobile devices (e.g. iPads) up to augmented reality (AR) in a peri-operative setting (e.g. using Hololens).

Rationale

Most of such visualization approaches used for surgical guidance ‘only’ use anatomical information coming from medical imaging, whereas the combination of anatomical and biological/histological characterization would provide a more comprehensive view on that patient’s disease state.

By adding the histology component coming from pathology (of biopsies) to the visualization, the surgeon has a more comprehensive overview of the patient’s disease state to be taken into account during surgery and decide on the surgical approach: “Is it safe to ‘spare’ the tissue on this side or is this part definitely tumor and should I take away a bit more tissue?”.

Goal

Build a 3 dimensional (3D) surgical-support demonstrator using data-sets coming from Philips diagnostic ‘point of care devices’, combining anatomical (medical imaging) and biological (medical imaging, biopsy and pathology) tissue characterization.

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