NCT05640401

Holographic Screens as a Replacement of Monitors During GI Endoscopies

Mixed-reality Holographic Screens as the Replacement of Monitors in the Endoscopy Suite: a Multicenter Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Instituto Ecuatoriano de Enfermedades Digestivas · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 89 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Nowadays, the application and development of spatial technologies have shown an increased interest in different fields of medicine, especially in procedural specialties. Many studies have shown the utility of augmented and virtual reality; however, studies evaluating mixed reality are scarce. In gastroenterology, some proposed advantages of MR are the 3D space guidance, its increased situational awareness, remote assistance, and the reduction of surgical monitors in the units. Based on this, the researchers proposed a multicenter trial to assess the added value of MR through a holographic device during gastroenterology endoscopic procedures.

Detailed description

In the medical field, many technologies have emerged to aid healthcare providers during training, communication, and management of patients. The area of spatial computing is becoming part of the immersive developing technology. The main components of spatial computing are augmented, virtual, and mixed reality (AR, VR, and MR, respectively). VR is a human-computer interface that simulates a realistic environment, while AR superimpose elements of VR in a real-world environment. AR is an enhanced version of the real-world achieved through sensory information delivered via technology. Moreover, the combination of both is known as MR. Mixed reality is an interactive, real-time processed, three-dimension registered technology. In medicine, published data has broadly demonstrated the utility and advantages of AR and VR in many fields like neurosurgery, cardiology, maxillofacial, hepatobiliary, and orthopedics. However, information about MR for health purposes is scarce. Based on the above, it is necessary to develop studies to assess the utility of MR in other procedural medical fields like gastroenterology. Some of the proposed advantages of MR in gastroenterology, mainly during endoscopic procedures, are the 3D space guidance and gesture operation (translation and rotation) without touching the object, the increase in situational awareness by reduction of real-world and content refocusing, the remote assistance during procedures, and the replacement/reduction of the use of monitors during the procedures. To evaluate the advantages and added value of MR in gastroenterology, the researchers proposed a multicenter trial in the endoscopic units by using a built developed application (HXtendTM, mdconsgroup, Guayaquil, Ecuador) for the HoloLens2TM (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA) holographic device.

Conditions

• Gastrointestinal Diseases

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Endoscopy guided by mixed reality (HoloLens2TM) (HXtend™ software)	Included expert gastrointestinal endoscopists performing diagnostic procedures with mixed reality guidance. All the procedures will be performed by using the HoloLens2TM (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA), an ergonomic self-contained holographic device. HoloLens2TM (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA) uses HXtend™ developed software (mdconsgroup, Guayaquil, Ecuador) installed and running on Windows holographic OS. The monitors signals are replicated into holograms by an app developed with the unity Software package (Version 2022.1.22, Unity Technologies, San Francisco, CA, USA). After each procedure, the researchers will evaluate the device performance along with the acceptance and experience of the endoscopists using this technology.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-11-21
• Primary completion: 2023-10-15
• Completion: 2023-10-30
• First posted: 2022-12-07
• Last updated: 2023-09-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Ecuador