International Digital Lab – Virtual Surgery

The Informatics Group, led by Professor Vinesh Raja, has a mission to understand and extend the theory of data capture and extraction of information and wisdom with a particular focus in the engineering, manufacturing and healthcare sectors. informatics-virtual-reality Engineering informatics deals with customer requirements data and product lifecycle data; manufacturing informatics focuses on process data concerning factory design and layout, machining and assembly processes; whereas healthcare informatics is concerned with data fo demographics, patient records, Picture Archiving and Communications Systems, remote healthcare monitoring, diagnosis, treatment planning and surgery planning. Current research projects include: * I*PROMS: flexible, re-configurable, fault-tolerant and eco and user-friendly manufacturing systems that can react to customer needs, environmental requirements, design inputs, and material/process/labour availability to manufacture high quality, cost-effective products. * INTUITION: virtual reality and virtual environments for future workspaces. * IWARD: a robot swarm delivering support to oversee activities in healthcare environments, providing a multipurpose, cost-effective and scalable solution to enhance the quality of healthcare. * PhD projects: modelling soft tissues for haptics applications such as virtual surgery; a virtual breast model for teaching breast examination to medical students and also for self examination by women; and developing a …