Augmented Reality in Medicine: Systematic and Bibliographic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Augmented reality (AR) is a technology that integrates digital information into the user's real-world environment. It offers a new approach for treatments and education in medicine. AR aids in surgery planning and patient treatment and helps explain complex medical situations to patients and their relatives.

Objective

This systematic and bibliographic review offers an overview of the development of apps in AR with a medical use case from March 2012 to June 2017. This work can aid as a guide to the literature and categorizes the publications in the field of AR research.

Methods

From March 2012 to June 2017, a total of 1309 publications from PubMed and Scopus databases were manually analyzed and categorized based on a predefined taxonomy. Of the total, 340 du

SUBMITTER: Eckert M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6658230 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature