Cardiac Coronary Intervention Simulator

Simulators are used in numerous disciplines to accomplish various tasks. These simulators provide excellent and unique insights into complex environments to successfully plan improvements in typical setups. Training simulators support learning with a lower cost and focus on achieving better results. This paper presents designing and developing a cardiac coronary interventions simulator with vital functions of computing and animation. This simulator is integrated hardware that implements the compute model and a software system that deploys the animate model. The developed simulator is designed for novice cardiac surgeons that learn complex coronary intervention procedures. A plastic tube is used to mimic a catheter wire. The catheter wire movements are converted to single digits through the compute model. These values are transferred to the animate model that maps each value to a line segment for visualization. A comparison based on twenty features with recent state-of-the-art works found in literature shows the proposed simulator provides a feature-rich medical device. Additionally, the simulator with few modifications is a potential artificial intelligence internet of things device.