Interrogation of patient data delivered to the operating theatre during hepato-pancreatic surgery using high-performance computing.

Objective: The Op3D visualization system allows, for the first time, a surgeon in the operating theatre to interrogate patient-specific medical data sets rendered in three dimensions using high-performance computing. The hypothesis of this research is that the success rate of hepato-pancreatic surgical resections can be improved by replacing the light box with an interactive 3D representation of the medical data in the operating theatre.

Materials And Methods: A laptop serves as the client computer and an easy-to-use interface has been developed for the surgeon to interact with and interrogate the patient data.