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Interventions on fetuses can treat potentially very serious conditions for unborn babies and are among the most challenging to perform due to difficulty of access, reduced vision and manoeuvrability, a lack of information about what to expect once inside the patient, and the patient s extreme fragility.
In recent years, to achieve a realistic simulation of the patient, major breakthroughs have been achieved in medical imaging techniques, AI and mixed reality. These advances are of paramount importance to surgeons as they enable them to plan surgery well in advance and train all of the most challenging steps of their interventions before entering the operating room.