Augmented Reality for Surgery – Lynx Medical

Health is a very dynamic research field, in full expansion, and which is constantly nourished by hybridization with multiple emerging scientific fields. Among these, digital health puts the resources of artificial intelligence at the service of public health and the organization, management and evaluation of the health system. For nearly 30 years now, surgeons have been appropriating these technologies for the benefit of patients.

Today, digital technology can assist the surgeon in his actions and imaging can help the surgeon to see the organs and their functioning before, during and after the operation. The first challenge to come is to assist the surgeon in his own vision of the operation by allowing him to observe simultaneously in real time the patient and his digital twin. By digitizing all the interactions between the surgeon and the patient, it becomes possible to model the entire operation and to develop artificial intelligence tools to assist the surgeon in the conduct of the entire operation. This is the ambition that the project partners, Inserm and Lynx Mixed Reality, wish to achieve. It is a breakthrough in surgical practice, but also a breakthrough for the training of surgeons.

The company LYNX MIXED REALITY has developed a completely new mixed reality headset with performances compatible with the requirements imposed for surgical practice. We would like to set up a joint research laboratory with Inserm. Indeed, the Lynx company and members of the INSERM U1148 unit have been in contact since the creation of the prototype of the augmented reality headset in 2017.

The labCom aims to be the crucible of this project, which has the desire to be a scientific and medical pioneer by bringing innovative health products to the operating room and developing a French and European industrial sector of digital surgery.