A VR platform for enhanced medical education and procedural planning, without borders
Enhance Medical Competence
Educators, students and specialists gain access to realistic, patient-specific visualizations.
This improves anatomical and physiological training and translates to better understanding and ultimately enhanced procedural competence.
Personalize
Patient Care
Clinicians can plan surgeries and refine diagnoses using a digital twin of their patients.
Detailed, validated 3D visualizations and simulations optimize outcomes for individual patients.
Global
Collaboration
Collaborate in a multi-user virtual environments to foster real-time discussions.
Healthcare professionals to share knowledge or plan surgeries, regardless of
geographic location.
VHEARTS offers access to a unique library of resources and tools for an immersive experience that enriches morphology and anatomy training workshops and overcome barriers where access to physical specimens are limited.
VHEARTS has been successfully trialled in clinical applications at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and by more than 3000 users in national and international educational programmes.
IN THE NEWS
RESEARCH
Claudio Capelli, Andrew Cook, Endrit Pajaziti, Silvia Schievano
CMR 2024 The Global CMR Conference, Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance. 2024
Fabrizio Crascì, Endrit Pajaziti, Salvatore Pasta, Liam Swanson, Silvia Schievano, Claudio Capelli
Extended Reality. XR Salento 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2024
Endrit Pajaziti, Silvia Schievano, Andrew Cook, Felix Thiel, Anusha Jegatheeswaran, Georgios Belitsis, Branko Mimic, Martin Kostolny, Claudio Capelli
Extended Reality. XR Salento 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2024
Vandermolen S, Ricci F, Chahal CA, Capelli C, Barakat K, Fedorowski A, Westwood M, Patel RS, Petersen SE, Gallina S, Pugliese F.
Current Problems in Cardiology. 2022
Pajaziti E, Milano EG, Schievano S, Cook A, Capelli C.
European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery. 2022
Milano EG, Kostolny M, Pajaziti E, Marek J, Regan W, Caputo M, Luciani GB, Mortensen KH, Cook AC, Schievano S, Capelli C.
European Heart Journal-Digital Health. 2021
Pajaziti E, Schievano S, Sauvage E, Cook A, Capelli C.
Electronics. 2021
Karen A. Eley, Maria Camilla Rossi-Espagnet, Silvia Schievano, Antonio Napolitano, Juling Ong, Aurelio Secinaro, Luca Borro, David Dunaway, Carlo Efisio Marras, Adam Rennie, Fergus Robertson, Sergio Picardo, Daniela Longo, Alessandro Inserra, Massimo Rollo, Jessica Cooper, Kshitij Mankad, Noor-Owase Jeelani, Felice D’Arco
Radiology 2020
Elena Giulia Milano, Endrit Pajaziti, Emilie Sauvage, Andrew Cook, Silvia Schievano, Kristian H. Mortensen, Andrew M Taylor, Jan Marek, Martin Kostolny, Claudio Capelli
Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging 2019
THE TEAM
VHEARTS is a platform created by a team of academics and researchers from University College London (UCL) & Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust (GOSH).
The core team is composed of researchers from UCL, with a wealth of experience in biomedical engineering and anatomy spanning over 20 years. The team has achieved a number of high-impact research outputs, and worked in fields including medical device design, surgical implants, 3D printing, biomechanics, patient population studies and more. The core team is supported by a diverse set of clinical advisors, including cardiologists, cardiac and craniofacial surgeons, imaging experts and more.
Interested in trying VHEARTS at your institution?