Seminário
Extended Reality in Healthcare
Prof. Kavitha Anandan
SSN College of Engineering, India
Abstract
Extended Reality (XR), is an immersive platform that encompasses Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) techniques. It provides interactive experiences by merging physical and virtual worlds, thereby allowing interaction with digital objects, enhancing learning, training, and overall understanding. XR has been extensively used in various domains and has seen applications in healthcare. XR applications in healthcare include patient treatment, surgical training, and medical education. XR offers immersive experiences that can enhance patient engagement, aid in rehabilitation, and provide new ways to train healthcare professionals. This talk intends to unfold the possibilities of employing XR in various healthcare applications. A few case based applications on using Augmented reality for spine and liver surgical systems will be discussed. Some interesting VR based environments developed for enhancing learning in children with neurodevelopmental disorders will also be explained.
Brief Bio
Professor Kavitha Anandan is the Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at SSN College of Engineering, Tamilnadu, India. She is the Coordinator of Centre for Healthcare Technologies (CHT), an interdisciplinary research initiative of SSN College of Engineering and is a passionate researcher of Brain dynamics in Cognition, learning and memory..She has over 25 years of research experience in the field of Medical Image processing, Bio Signal processing and Extended Reality. She received her B.E (EEE) degree from the University of Madras, M.S. (By Research) and Ph. D. both specializing in Biomedical Instrumentation from Anna University, Chennai. Her research interests include Cognitive neuroscience, Mental imagery, Neuroimaging, Bio Signal Processing, Bone biomechanics and Virtual/Augmented reality. She has published various articles in international journals and conferences in the areas of biomedical signal and image processing, respiratory mechanics, machine learning techniques, Extended reality and cognitive neuroscience. She works on various externally projects funded by Department of Science and Technology, Science and Engineering Research Board, National Agricultural and Science Foundation, Shiv Nadar Foundation etc. She is the Program Director of the SSN SACE – DREXEL Direct Pathway MSBME program (2023-till date). She has been mentoring summer interns from the Drexel School of Biomedical Engineering, Philadelphia, USA under the international summer internship iSTAR research program every year (2017 – Till date). She has various international research collaborations with University of Bologna, Italy, University of Delft and University of Twente, The Netherlands, Drexel University, USA, She has been selected as the Top 20 most influential women scientists in Tamilnadu, India (2019). She was an invited member of the Top 15 Woman Scientists to represent Indian women in STEM research at the ASEAN – INDIA Women’s conclave at Singapore (2024) and the FHED Conference at NCKU, Taiwan.