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{"title":"Autopsy Brain Removal Training Using Virtual Reality Simulation","authors":"I. Choi","doi":"10.5210/jbc.v43i2.10225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5210/jbc.v43i2.10225","url":null,"abstract":"Hospital autopsy is the only method of confirming diagnoses for neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer's and Lewy body disease, despite advanced diagnostic technologies. However, the number of hospital autopsies has steadily declined, due to changes in hospital accreditation requirements, lack of reimbursement, and other factors. Consequently, it is challenging to train autopsy assistants, pathology residents and neuropathology fellows to become competent in evisceration and dissection techniques, as there are few opportunities to observe and perform hospital autopsies. The procedure for autopsy brain removal is particularly challenging because: (i) incorrect cutting planes and depth of cut during opening of the cranium can lead to inadequate exposure of, or damage to, brain tissue, and (ii) there may be initial hesitation to perform the procedure due to proximity to the face. These challenges are compounded because current teaching resources are limited to drawings (which lack key spatial and volumetric cues) and photographs (which provide only a single view, and may have superfluous information); no physical practice of the procedure is involved. To address this deficit, a virtual reality (VR) simulation application was developed to teach proper methodology in performing steps of the autopsy brain removal, and as a proof-of-concept for a complete hospital autopsy VR simulation. The simulation provides an immersive VR interactive experience within an Oculus Rift platform. It uses realistic virtual patient models created from surface 3D scans of a real person, data-driven 3D models of anatomy, sound effects, and haptic responses within a VR autopsy suite. The simulation also features real-time visual feedback and evaluation of user performance, to assist improvement of skills and knowledge during the step of opening the cranium with an oscillating saw. This thesis documents the process of developing the VR simulation, in particular the creation and use of i) 3D models of patient, cranium and brain, ii) interactions between instruments and patient in VR, iii) in-game feedback: visual, sound and haptic, and iv) user interface (UI) interaction in VR.","PeriodicalId":75049,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of biocommunication","volume":"112 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84918439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Publisher's Comment.","authors":"Gary W Schnitz","doi":"10.5210/jbc.v43i2.10169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5210/jbc.v43i2.10169","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Welcome to the Journal of Biocommunication issue 43-2. The issue represents our second issue of 2019 and our seventh issue designed for our new mixed publishing format that offers our authors traditional publishing as well as open access options. Our Journal is dedicated to the dissemination of high-quality research, and we accept manuscripts, which are of interest to the broader bioscience community. We welcome authors reporting on their high-impact discoveries, cutting-edge research, and new imaging methodologies. Our professional organizations and the Journal are critical for generating open access content of scholarly, intellectual, and creative merit.</p>","PeriodicalId":75049,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of biocommunication","volume":"43 2","pages":"e8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/da/07/jbc-43-2-e8.PMC9138818.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40503644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Professional Clinical Photography to Assist Patients with Pectus Carinatum.","authors":"John A Yeats","doi":"10.5210/jbc.v43i2.10230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5210/jbc.v43i2.10230","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A photographic clinical role has been realized in our institution in the care of patients with Pectus Carinatum. A series of clinical photographs along with 3D imaging are now presented by our photographers to each patient in clinic to demonstrate changes over time in the size and shape of their chest wall defects associated with this condition. This interaction has increased patient compliance for treatment and subsequently reinforces the relevance and importance of clinical photographers in patient care.</p>","PeriodicalId":75049,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of biocommunication","volume":"43 2","pages":"e12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/82/3d/jbc-43-2-e12.PMC9140316.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40503645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Publisher's Comment.","authors":"Gary W Schnitz","doi":"10.5210/jbc.v43i1.9958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5210/jbc.v43i1.9958","url":null,"abstract":"This Publisher's Comment provides an overview of the content for issue 43-1 of the Journal of Biocommunication. This publication represents our first issue of 2019, and it is our sixth issue designed for our new mixed publishing format.Journal Management Board for the JBC","PeriodicalId":75049,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of biocommunication","volume":"43 1","pages":"e1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/e7/f4/jbc-43-1-e1.PMC9140293.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40699688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"JBC Gallery: 2018 AMI Salon.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Gallery for this issue of the JBC features the extraordinary imagery from the Association of Medical Illustrators' 2018 annual meeting Salon. The illustration, animation, and interactive media featured in the JBC Gallery were exhibited at the AMI annual meeting held in Newton, Massachusetts.</p>","PeriodicalId":75049,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of biocommunication","volume":"43 1","pages":"e7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9138549/pdf/jbc-43-1-e7.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40699685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Developing a Virtual Lab to Teach Essential Biology Laboratory Techniques.","authors":"Mao Miyamoto,&nbsp;Deborah M Milkowski,&nbsp;Christine D Young,&nbsp;Leah A Lebowicz","doi":"10.5210/jbc.v43i1.9959","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5210/jbc.v43i1.9959","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Laboratory classes have consistently played a crucial role in science education for many years. Common to all labs is the need to understand essential lab techniques. Students often lack this foundational understanding, and this can lead to poor performance or confidence (Gallagher et al. 2008) Virtual labs have been found to be effective in promoting active learning and increasing performance (Lewis 2014 ). In this project, a virtual lab for preparing a phosphate-buffered saline solution (PBS) was created to educate undergraduate biology students on essential laboratory techniques. The virtual lab included animations and interactive elements to visually communicate each step Content experts provided input on the accuracy of the scientific content throughout development. Focus group testing with biology teaching assistants (TAs) at the University of Illinois at Chicago was conducted to assess the potential effectiveness of the virtual lab.</p>","PeriodicalId":75049,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of biocommunication","volume":"43 1","pages":"e5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/b8/f4/jbc-43-1-e5.PMC9138736.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40699686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"2018 AMI Lifetime Achievement Award.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This JBC Showcase features the award winning medical illustration of William Andrews. Bill was the 2018 recipient of the Association of Medical Illustrators' Lifetime Achievement Award. His award was presented at the Awards Ceremony during the AMI's annual meeting held in Newton, Massachusetts.</p>","PeriodicalId":75049,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of biocommunication","volume":"43 1","pages":"e6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9138707/pdf/jbc-43-1-e6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40699687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"25 Years Ago in the <i>JBPA/JBP</i>.","authors":"Thomas St John Merrill","doi":"10.5210/jbc.v43i1.9957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5210/jbc.v43i1.9957","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75049,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of biocommunication","volume":"43 1","pages":"e2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/38/c7/jbc-43-1-e2.PMC9140318.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40699689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Usability Guidelines for an Online Image Database.","authors":"Ruth Chang,&nbsp;Donald F Bliss,&nbsp;Anne R Altemus","doi":"10.5210/jbc.v43i1.7874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5210/jbc.v43i1.7874","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There are currently no existing guidelines for optimizing user experience in online image databases. Here we use established usability design principles to develop a set of 50 recommendations for improving database organization, navigability, and search functionality. We conduct a resource audit of commercial and non-profit image galleries and evaluate them upon our criteria. Our findings are summarized within a basic wireframe to be used as reference for prospective image databases in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":75049,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of biocommunication","volume":"43 1","pages":"e4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/4b/72/jbc-43-1-e4.PMC9166281.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40699684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Medical Photography: Practices of Graduate Students at Makerere University.","authors":"Apollo Peter Bamusonighe,&nbsp;Gerald Tumusiime,&nbsp;Paul Lukiza,&nbsp;Joseph Ochieng","doi":"10.5210/jbc.v43i1.9484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5210/jbc.v43i1.9484","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Medical photography is a specialized genre of photography concerned with taking photographs beneficial to medical practice. This study aimed at delineating trends in medical photography practices among graduate students at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. Data suggest most graduate students first encounter medical photographs in their classes (68.1%), although some had taken their own medical photographs (13.5%), primarily using their mobile phone (81.6%). However, the majority of the photographs (66%) were taken by their colleagues.</p>","PeriodicalId":75049,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of biocommunication","volume":"43 1","pages":"e3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/5e/7d/jbc-43-1-e3.PMC9140260.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40699683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}