Virtual Nursing Simulator With Haptic Force-Feedback For Oral Hygiene : Virtual Nursing Simulator With Haptic Force-Feedback For Oral Hygiene Students: Diana Serafimovska
Thuy Pham
Advisor: Dr. Elhajj
Nurse: Dr. Harrison
Facts : Facts 80% of adults have periodontal disease, 99% of those people have no sign to indicate the problem [1].
40% of Americans do not receive proper oral hygiene care [3].
1.5 out of 1.6 million people residing in nursing homes have poor oral health care [5] [6].
Only 16% of the nursing home residents had their teeth cleaned with substandard oral hygiene care [8].
Bad Oral-Hygiene Leads to... : Bad Oral-Hygiene Leads to... Plaque accumulation leads to
Gingivitis
Periodontitis
Aspiration Pneumonia
Cardiovascular diseases
Decreased quality of life
Increased cost of care
Oral-Hygiene In Nursing Home : Oral-Hygiene In Nursing Home [4]
Our Research is about… :
If you can't touch it, but you can see it, it's .
If you can touch it, and you can see it, it's .
Our Research is about… REAL VIRTUAL “Virtual Interactive Real-Time Simulation with
Haptic Force-Feedback”
The Set-up : The Set-up Diagram “Virtual Interactive Real-Time Simulation with
Haptic Force-Feedback” Virtual
Environment Simulator Haptic Tool
PHANTOM
OMNI Real-Time
User
interactive
The system : The system User Graphical User
Interface Physical
Force - Input
- Output Proxy (x,y,z) Force System
Force
To
Physical
Force Visualization
Haptic Device
Haptic Interface activateHaptic();
findProxyPosition();
DrawShape();
If contact
Force = kx
Else no contact
Force = 0
outputForce();
outputContactPoint(); Data Control Haptic
Display
- Collision detection/Response
Our Purposes : Our Purposes Worthwhile Educational Values
Users: nurses & nursing students
Impacts:
Smoother transition into the clinical environment [5]
Support and reinforce ergonomics [5]
Reduction in the need of instructors
Improvement in skills
Provide:
Convenient work environment
User-friendly interface
Repetition
Sufficient supporting materials
Performance Assessment
Other Simulation Studies : Other Simulation Studies The Johnson Center at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
The first dedicated pediatric and obstetric medical simulation center in the world
Allows health-care professionals to use their skills in a simulated medical environment [10].
Biological Simulators, Inc
A program that contains mathematical descriptions of physiological functions in the human body.
Interaction with equations through an interface that allows you to create a disturbance and then track the subsequent physiological response [17].
Other Simulation Studies (cont) : Other Simulation Studies (cont) Optimizing the design, manufacturing
cost, and functionality of new toothbrushes.
CAD toothbrush model, 3D - CT scans of person’s jaw.
PHANTOM 1.5A, GHOST library.
Finite Elements Method, Voxel-Based Algorithm.
Limitations: multi-point collision, oral surface contact detection.
Goals: pre-operative planning system for cranio-facial surgery, surgeons.
Interactive Simulation of Teeth Cleaning [7]
Other Dental Simulation Studies : Other Dental Simulation Studies The Iowa Virtual Reality Dental Simulator
Teach and test dentist students surgical skills
Remove vibration to enhance realistic tactile feeling by increasing update rate (1kHz)
VRML 3D models
PHANTOM desktop
C and C++, World Toolkit
Goals: levels of touch detail, graphical display.
[6]
Other Dental Simulation Studies (cont) : Other Dental Simulation Studies (cont) DentSim
DenX America
Physical models: head and teeth
Equipment: computer, camera, simulators
No time-delay between simulators and software
Outcome-based assessment of the procedures
Being used in many schools in the U.S
Limitations: too expensive [13]
Other Dental Simulation Studies (cont) : Other Dental Simulation Studies (cont) University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine
Use simulators for their first year dental students.
The simulator is made up of standard dental equipment where each station is equipped with a dummy patient simulator that has a removable jaw with lifelike movement that can be approached from any angle.
Provides the clinical experience without setting foot in an actual clinic [11].
University of Washington
Offers a teaching camp that gives students the opportunity to work with teeth simulators while learning to make impressions, models, and reconstructions of portions of teeth [12].
Our Oral-Hygiene Simulation Studies : Our Oral-Hygiene Simulation Studies How can we prove that our research will be effective?
If doctors can, why can’t nurses?
Faster way of learning
Columbia University’s School of Dental and Oral Surgery has shown that students learn much faster using simulation machines [9].
Well prepared for real clinical practices [5]
Capability of our application
Oral health care training gives:
Significant improvement specifically for oral hygiene (Nicol, Sweeney, McHugh, Bagg, 2005).
369 caregivers were improved in attitudes and knowledge of oral health care (Frenkel. Harvey, Needs, 2002)
Challenges : Challenges Graphic User Interface
Visual Basic interfaces with Visual C++
Realistic 3D modeling
Physical properties: colors, size, etc.
Facial features: tongue, face, etc.
Force-feel realism
Synchronization:
Haptic (1kHz) & graphic (30Hz) update rate [14]
Multi-threading structure [14]
Reduction in vibration: haptic device force & update rate
Multi-point tactile sensory
Tactile feelings at different regions
Deformation of soft tissues
Accuracy in calculation
The specific surfaces of contact
Timing
Procedural Assessment
Detailed evaluation
The process… : The process… Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- Visual Basic
The process… (cont) : The process… (cont) Programming language: C++
Rendering techniques
HLAPI / HDAPI - haptic library
OpenGL – graphic rendering library
GLUT – auxiliary library handles window creations: mouse movement, button and keyboard functions, callbacks, etc.
GLUI – GUI for GLUT
The process… (cont) : The process… (cont) 3D model
OBJ format OBJ
LOADER VERTICES
FACES OPENGL
MESH
The process… (cont) : The process… (cont) Load 3D Toothbrush
Problem:
Missing vertices & faces
Loader does not work
well with a larger number
of polygons
Solution:
Splodge
Limitation: no texture
The process… (cont) : The process… (cont) Enable haptic device
Load models
Draw models
Graphically
Haptically
Determine proxy point
Force calculation
Collision Detection done by HLAPI
GLUI builds on top of GLUT
Start/Stop time
Evaluation form
The process… (cont) : The process… (cont) Problems Collision Detection
Penetration
Third-party physics/dynamics and collision detection engine
Sphere Trees
Axis Aligned Bounding Box (AABB)
Oriented Bounding Box (OBB) – RAPID
SWIFT++ - convex-decomposition & bounding volume hierarchy
I-COLLIDE – only convex
Q-COLLIDE – enhancement of I-COLLIDE
QuickCD & CD – dynamic/dynamic, static/dynamic objects; k-dop bounding volume
[14] [15] [16]
Movie Time : Movie Time
Future Implementation & Directions : Future Implementation & Directions Graphical visualization
Loader
Textures
Facial features
Bleeding of gum
Algorithms
Visual collision detection
Surface contact calculation
Optimization of the
force-feedback system
Multi-point collision
Reduce vibration
Quote From This Research : Quote From This Research If you can touch it and you can see it, it's REAL
If you can't touch it but you can see it, it's VIRTUAL
If you can touch it but you can't see it, it's T
If you can't touch it and you can't see it, it's
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References : References [1] “Oral Hygiene.” Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia. 6 June 2006.
[2] Anton, Pam. Advanced Dental Hygiene Practitioner Fact Sheet 2006. 6 June 2006.
[3] “An Overview of Nursing Home Facilities: Data from 1997 National Nursing Home Survey.” National Center for Health Statistics. No 311. 1 March 2000.
[4] Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Nursing Care. Lippincott William and Wilkins © 2005.
[5] Judith Ann Buchanan. Use of Simulation Technology in Dental Education. Journal of Dental Education. November 2001.
[6] Steven Dow, Geb Thomas, Lynn Johnson, Clark Standford. Iowa Dental Surgical Simulator. University of Iowa College of Dentistry and the GROK Lab. 2004.
[7] Gockel T, Salb T, Weyrich T, Burgert O, Dillmann R. Interactive Interactive Simulation of Teeth Cleaning. Institute for Process Control and Robotics. University Karlsruhe, Germany, 2000.
[8] “Oral Care Provided by Certified Nursing Assistants in Nursing Homes.” Oral Care in Nursing Homes. January 2006. Vol. 54. No. 1.
[9] Dougherty, Matthew. Dental Students Cut Teeth on New Simulators. Columbia University Health Sciences. © 2002.
[10] Conger, Krista. “New center innovates teaching through simulation.” Stanford Report. 13 November 2002
References (cont) : References (cont) [11] Uhl, Jocelyn. “Dental Education of the Future at Pitt now: First-year Students Learn Clinical Skills Now, $2.8 million Simulation Clinic.” Pitt Chronicle: Newspaper of the University of Pittsburgh. 23 September 2002.
[12] Neary, Walter. “Dental camp will give youth a rare close-up view of profession.” UWnews.org. 19 July 2002.
[13] DentSim. DenX Advanced Medical System. DenX America, Inc. 2006.
[14] Cagatay Basdogan, Chih-Hao Ho. Principles of Haptic Rendering for Virtual Environments. Laboratory for Human and Machine Haptics. MIT.
[15] Stephen A. Ehmann and Ming C. Lin. Accurate and Fast Proximity Queries between Polyhedra Using Surface Decomposition. Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. of Eurographics), 2001.
[16] Ales Daneu. Collision Detection Algorithms. Computer and Information Science. University of Ljubljana. 2002. pp: 7-10.
[17] Biological Simulators, Inc. Simulation for Education and Research. Tom Coleman. 14 July 2006.
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