"IUCRC Phase I: University of Maryland, College Park: Center for Medical Innovations in Extended Reality (MIXR)"

延展实境医学创新中心（MIXR）将计算机科学和工程与医学和临床科学相结合，为设计和评估医学延展实境（XR）应用开发和建立科学基础。该中心与行业合作伙伴合作，扩大XR的安全部署，专注于新技术和监管途径，以改善医疗保健公平性和可及性，患者管理和临床实践各个领域的医疗结果。MIXR已确定在临床实践，医学教育和培训以及监管标准中的驱动应用。马里兰州大学帕克分校以其独特的能力领导该中心：医学场景获取（最先进的多摄像头阵列和用于获取和融合视觉数据的软件管道），预测建模（识别医疗数据异常的人工智能辅助方法），沉浸式远程呈现（高分辨率、高帧率动态光场渲染，以便于使用低延迟、高精度表示的医学图像传输），人为因素（沉浸式呈现界面）以及成像和显示（在医疗环境中评估XR模态的台架测试方法）XR设备评估明显落后于技术创新，增加了无效或不安全应用的风险，并延迟了临床实施。这项工作的更广泛影响将是解决医疗XR设备评价的开放研究问题。支持NSF的使命，这将确保围绕这些技术的公共安全，并改善医疗保健结果。通过与美国食品药品监督管理局的合作，项目成果将为医疗XR设备的监管要求和决策提供科学依据。此外，MIXR为代表性不足的学生创造教育机会的多方面战略方法侧重于访问，社区和创新。该项目产生的数据，软件，调查结果和出版物将在各个网站上存档，但在http://mixr.umd.edu上有一个中央服务器，以方便发现。研究和档案工作人员将在向公众发布之前审查在该项目期间收集的数据。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Center for Medical Innovation in Extended Reality (MIXR) integrates computer science and engineering with medical and clinical sciences to develop and establish scientific foundations for designing and assessing medical extended reality (XR) applications. Working with industry partners to broaden the safe deployment of XR, the Center focuses on new technologies and regulatory pathways to improve healthcare equity and access, patient management, and medical outcomes across all areas of clinical practice.MIXR has identified driving applications in clinical practice, medical education and training, and regulatory standards. The University of Maryland, College Park leads the Center with unique capabilities in: medical scenario acquisition (a state-of-the-art multi-camera array and a software pipeline for acquiring and fusing visual data), predictive modeling (AI-assisted methods to identify anomalies in medical data), immersive telepresence (high-resolution, high-frame-rate dynamic light field rendering to facilitate medical image transmission using low-latency, high-precision representations), human factors (immersive presence interfaces), and imaging and displays (bench-testing methods evaluating XR modalities in medical environments).XR device evaluation lags significantly behind technological innovation, increasing the risk of ineffective or unsafe applications and delaying clinical implementation. This effort’s broader impact will be addressing open research questions for the evaluation of medical XR devices. Supporting NSF’s mission, this will assure public safety around these technologies and improve health care outcomes. In collaboration with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, project outcomes will provide the scientific foundation supporting regulatory requirements on and decisions regarding medical XR devices. Further, MIXR’s multi-faceted strategic approach for creating educational opportunities for underrepresented students focuses on access, community, and innovation.Data, software, findings, and publications resulting from this project will be archived across the sites, but with a central server at http://mixr.umd.edu to facilitate ease of discovery. Research and archival staff will review the data collected during this project before release to the public. It shall be publicly available for at least three years after the project.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.