Recent Developments and Future Challenges in Medical Mixed Reality
This provides a reference for researchers and medical practitioners to focus on needed advancements in medical MR, but it is incremental as it synthesizes existing literature without introducing new methods or data.
The paper tackles the problem of understanding the development and future needs of medical Mixed Reality (MR) by applying text mining to 1,403 research papers to create a classification and taxonomy, revealing trends and analyzing recent technology and applications.
Mixed Reality (MR) is of increasing interest within technology-driven modern medicine but is not yet used in everyday practice. This situation is changing rapidly, however, and this paper explores the emergence of MR technology and the importance of its utility within medical applications. A classification of medical MR has been obtained by applying an unbiased text mining method to a database of 1,403 relevant research papers published over the last two decades. The classification results reveal a taxonomy for the development of medical MR research during this period as well as suggesting future trends. We then use the classification to analyse the technology and applications developed in the last five years. Our objective is to aid researchers to focus on the areas where technology advancements in medical MR are most needed, as well as providing medical practitioners with a useful source of reference.