IMMERSIVE AUGMENTED REALITY APPLICATIONS IN JAW AND KNEE REPLACEMENT SURGERY: ACCURACY AND PROCESSING TIME RESULTS

Abstract

 In medicine and healthcare, augmented reality (AR) has been used by physicians during surgical procedures. It has provedhelpful in preoperative planning and procedure navigation by allowing them to display in-depth information and visualizedetails in real time during surgery, prioritizing patient safety and healthcare. Due to the critical nature of surgical procedures,extreme accuracy is required when using ar technology to maintain patients' health. A few years ago, ar faced severalchallenges and limitations in surgeries, such as noise in real-time images, cutting errors, navigation errors, wrong implantplacement, overlay errors, navigating narrow areas, geometric accuracy limitations, image alignment, image registration,and occlusion handling. This paper reviews several recently published articles exploring ar technology usage in jaw andknee replacement surgery, focusing on identifying the newest technologies, methods, and solutions for the abovementionedlimitations. Based on data collected from the published papers, the results were compared for each problem solved in eacharticle regarding accuracy and processing time.