About IMIXR
Institute of Medical Intelligence and XR (IMIXR) aims to advance the frontier of artificial intelligence (AI) and extended reality (XR) in medical and healthcare applications, making precision medicine a reality in next-generation healthcare. It was established in 2023 and led by Professor Pheng Ann Heng, a professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). The research team is comprised of researchers from more than a dozen top universities and research institutions in Hong Kong, mainland China, the United States, and other regions.
Technological innovation has presented new and promising ways to improve medical diagnosis, treatment, education, and healthcare service with ever-increasing rigor, subtlety, insight, and precision. Among these advanced technologies, artificial intelligence (AI) and extended reality (XR) are growing fast and making huge transformations in medicine and healthcare. XR is a term referring to all real-and-virtual combined environments and human-machine interactions generated by computer technology and wearables. Integrating AI and XR research can open many new possibilities towards achieving and delivering precision medicine for next-generation healthcare. IMIXR is dedicated to developing innovative solutions to these challenges including four parts:
1. Intelligent Personalized Diagnosis (IPD) for diagnosis via advanced medical image analysis.
2. AI-XR Interaction & Virtual Surgery (IVS) for next-generation visualization, assessment, treatment coordination, precise planning, and surgical training and education.
3. Intraoperative AI-AR Assisted Surgery (IAS) for dynamic medical interpretation, efficient execution of a surgical plan, and real-time fused intraoperative image guidance.
4. An integrated multi-facet pipeline platform to demonstrate its usefulness for important applications of liver cancer.