The AIA is a head-mounted display based system designed to simplify image-guided surgery processes and provide intelligent support during operations.

A head-mounted display-based system, the AIA combines pre-operational images with the position tracking of instruments, the operating field, and the surgeon to augment the physician’s field of view with virtual information.

The ingenious concept revolves around giving surgeons access to information such as patient anatomy, position of tumor tissues, and pre-operational planning that has yet to be made available to them as of now.

The AIA comprises a control and loading station and a head-mounted display with a separable display and head strap. The head-mounted displays are loaded on a main station (seen below) designed as a surgical armrest to save space in the operating theatre.

Check out the video to see just why this idea is not only an award winner, but perhaps a life changing tool to better help the complicated reality that is surgery.