Haptics and Virtual Reality in Medicine

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The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department will be hosting a seminar featuring Dr. Cristian Luciano, Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at the Univeristy of Illinois, Chicago. The seminar is "Haptics and Virtual Reality in Medicine."

abstract

The emerging technologies of virtual reality (VR) and haptics applied to healthcare have the potential to improve medical training, enhance image-based diagnostics, and increase surgical outcomes towards the ultimate goal of achieving patient safety. This seminar will focus on the on-going research and development of cutting-edge VR surgical applications for medical training, real-time performance assessment of medical students and surgical residents, non-invasive prostate cancer diagnosis, preoperative planning, and multi- sensorial surgical guidance. These projects are being conducted thanks to the unique multidisciplinary collaboration among engineers, physicians, medical educators, and artists in the Colleges of Engineering, Medicine, and Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Biography

Dr. Cristian Luciano is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, and an Adjunct Research Assistant Professor in the Departments of Medical Education and Urology at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He is the Director of the Mixed Reality Laboratory, Assistant Director of the Innovation Medicine (IMED) program, and Research and Development Associate at the Graham Clinical Performance Center in the College of Medicine at UIC. He received his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, as well as his M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering and his M.S. degree in Computer Science, from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has been conducting research and development on virtual, mixed, and augmented reality in engineering, dentistry, and medicine for more than two decades. His areas of expertise involve 3D graphics, haptics, scientific visualization, collision detection, GPU programming, dynamics simulation, and multimodality motion tracking.

Note: This seminar is open to everyone at Illinois Tech. For more information regarding this seminar, please contact Dr. Joohee Kim, 7-8649, joohee@ece.iit.edu.