Cognitive Informatics and Soft Computing Proceeding of CISC 2017

Publisher url: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811306167The book presents new approaches and methods for solving real-world problems

Advances in Smart Grid and Renewable Energy

Focuses on the advances in Smart Grid and Renewable Energy Caters to researchers seeking solutions in the field of advanced electrical engineering and power distribution Deals with the practical problems and their scientific solutions Covers current trends like energy harvesting and green computing

Virtual Reality Simulator for Medical Auscultation Training

© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. According to the Oxford English dictionary, auscultation is “the action of listening to sounds from the heart, lungs, or other organs, typically with a stethoscope, as a part of medical diagnosis.” In this work, we describe a medical simulator that includes audio, visual, pseudo-haptic, and spatial elements for training medical students in auscultation. In our training simulator, the user is fully immersed in a virtual reality (VR) environment. A typical hospital bedside scenario was recreated, and the users can see their own body and the patient increase immersion. External tracking devices are used to acquire the user’s movements and map them into the VR environment. The main idea behind this work is for the user to associate the heart and lung sounds, as heard through the stethoscope with the corresponding health-related problems. Several sound parameters including the volume, give information about the type and severity of the disease. Our simulator can reproduce sounds belonging to the heart and lungs. Through the proposed VR-based training, the medical student ideally will learn to relate sounds to illnesses in a realistic setting, accelerating the learning process