Virtual Frog Dissection

The COVID 19 pandemic has had a significant influence on medical education across the world. With this virus causing severe damage to life and its aspects, the world is in the middle of a humanitarian crisis. As a result, there is no idea how this will play out in the future.   Du

Project Title

Virtual Frog Dissection

Project Area of Specialization

Computer Science

Project Summary

The COVID 19 pandemic has had a significant influence on medical education across the world. With this virus causing severe damage to life and its aspects, the world is in the middle of a humanitarian crisis. As a result, there is no idea how this will play out in the future.

During the countrywide lockdown, all academic sessions are stopped to help in stopping the spread of the virus. It is high time to rethink how to give medical education while practicing social distancing in real-time lectures and discussions. In addition to the COVID-19 pandemic, there are multiple moral, ethical, and controversial reasons to replace live frog dissection with virtual frog dissection.

To solve all these problems a solution was much needed. The proposed application focuses on converting the practical frog dissection learning model into a completely virtual 3D application where students can learn and become educated about frog anatomy. Getting a real life-like experience to understand and learn the whole dissection process without harming the amphibian animal species as well as voiding the moral, social, and environmental issues.

The targeted audience for this application is going to be intermediate pre-medical students, teachers, and anyone who wants to learn frog anatomy

Project Objectives

Dissections are required in biology classrooms, and they are an important part of learning about the human body and the environment around it. Observing these organs and learning how they function within a single species enables students to have a better knowledge of how these systems function in a variety of different creatures, including humans. ”Approximately 10 million animals each year are dissected in classrooms”. Our project will mainly focus on the following objectives:

1. Students will be able to perform frog dissection virtually.
2. This project will protect frogs from dissection and other animals too (future work)
3. This project will help to understand the anatomy &  physiology of frog
4. This project is Eco-Friendly.

Project Implementation Method

Our system helps to save frogs from being dissected. There are over 3 million frogs dissected every year. So, to prevent those frogs from suffering and immense pain they go through while dissection, we need this app which will be beneficial for both the frogs and students who want to learn. There are some methods by following which we can dissect the frog virtually.

1. The user can start the virtual frog dissection application.
2. The user can change the language.
3. The user can inject anesthesia into the frog's body.
4. The user can insert pins to the frog limbs.
5. The user can dissect the frog using the scalpel tool.
6. The user can peel open the dissected skin using a forceps tool.
7. The user can view every organ and remove it from the dissection tray.
8. The user can restart the dissection for repeated learning.
9. The user can quit the application.

This game is a simple yet a very effective idea that will target those students who suffer from any phobia of dissecting live frogs and those educational institutes which deem it necessary for the students to perform this process for educational progress and learning experience

Benefits of the Project

• The main reason to create a virtual frog dissection application is that students who are concerned with frog dissection can study frog anatomy and learn the frog dissection process through virtual dissection which as a result minimizes real frog sacrifice count, acknowledges students who do not want to perform live frog dissection but still provide them with a platform where they can learn the entire process.
• The project goal is to provide college biology students with the ability to explore the anatomy of a frog virtually using the application
• During the COVID pandemic, all the schools shut off therefore the live frog dissection process was not possible. So all the Pre-Medical students ended up learning the frog anatomy through images and diagrams.

Technical Details of Final Deliverable

The final deliverable of "3D Virtual Frog Dissection" will be a Desktop based application along with a documentation manual having all the technical details of the application. The application front hand is developed by using Unity-3D and the Organs are developed separately on Blender

Final Deliverable of the Project

Software System

Core Industry

Education

Other Industries

IT , Medical

Core Technology

Others

Other Technologies

Sustainable Development Goals

Quality Education

Required Resources

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