Prof. Navab is one of the pioneering researchers in the field of medical augmented reality. His major invention, the camera-augmented mobile c-arm of 1998, was the first augmented reality system providing real-time fusion of optical and x-ay images, allowing surgeons to see through the patient during surgical procedures. His team was the first to introduce augmented reality into operating rooms both for trauma and orthopedics surgery and for sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer and melanoma patient in early 2010. Navab holds 70 European patents as well as 51 US patents. In October 2021, Navab received the prestigious Enduring Impact Award of MICCAI Society.
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