Intraoperative Augmented Reality for Vitreoretinal Surgery Using Edge Computing.

ABSTRACT: Purpose: Augmented reality (AR) may allow vitreoretinal surgeons to leverage microscope-integrated digital imaging systems to analyze and highlight key retinal anatomic features in real time, possibly improving safety and precision during surgery. By employing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for retina vessel segmentation, a retinal coordinate system can be created that allows pre-operative images of capillary non-perfusion or retinal breaks to be digitally aligned and overlayed upon the surgical field in real time. Such technology may be useful in assuring thorough laser treatment of capillary non-perfusion or in using pre-operative optical coherence tomography (OCT) to guide macular surgery when microscope-integrated OCT (MIOCT) is not available. Methods: This study is

SUBMITTER: Ye RZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11766602 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature