Abdullah Thabit successfully defended his PhD thesis “Unbounded surgical reality: Development and assessment of augmented reality navigation for image-guided surgery”!!
On December 9, Abdullah successfully defended his PhD thesis: ‘Unbounded surgical reality: Development and assessment of augmented reality navigation for image-guided surgery’. In November 2020, Abdullah started his PhD at the Biomedical Imaging Group Rotterdam (BIGR), department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine and the department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Erasmus MC. He was supervised by Prof. Theo van Walsum and Prof. Eppo Wolvius.
During his PhD, Abdullah investigated the potential of using augmented reality (AR) head mounted displays (HMDs) for surgical navigation and he assessed their feasibility for clinical use. His Thesis focused on three main objectives: First, to investigate and validate the core components required in surgical navigation and to evaluate their applicability for AR HMDs. Second, to integrate these components into a complete end-to-end AR-based surgical navigation system. And third, to assess the accuracy and performance of such systems in guiding surgical tasks.
Since November 2024, Abdullah started working as a research software engineer at the department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, and BIGR, department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC, where he develops AI solutions to automate first trimester screening.