Abstract: System for training an interventionalist to perform an invasive percutaneous or endoscopic intervention on an organ includes a pipe having a size and/or shape similar to a body vessel or tubular body cavity connected to the organ. An exit of the pipe simulates or represents an exit of the vessel or cavity at the organ. A tool is inserted at an entrance of the pipe and pushed through the pipe. A stereoscopic camera acquires images of an end portion of the tool as it exits from the pipe. A model generating unit generates a real-time 3D model of this end portion from the images. A merging unit merges in real time the real-time model and a pre-computed 3D model of the organ into a common environment displayed so that the interventionalist can see in real-time where the real-time model of the tool is located with respect to the pre-computed model.

Abstract: System for training an interventionalist to perform an invasive percutaneous intervention or an endoscopic intervention on an organ, by using a tool in this organ, where a merging unit is arranged for merging in real-time in a common environment a real-time 3D model of an end portion of a tool and a pre-computed 3D model of at least a portion of the organ. A display shows to the interventionalist the common environment, so that the interventionalist can see in real-time on the display where the real-time 3D model of this end portion of the tool is located with respect to the pre-computed 3D model of the portion of the organ, thus making the training of the interventionalist possible.