Recently, the Hubei Association for Science and Technology officially announced the "Top 10 Scientific and Technological Advances in Hubei for 2025," with the achievement of "Research and Clinical Application of Brain-Computer Interfaces Based on Mixed Reality Technology," led by Professor Ye Zhewei and Dr. Zhou Hong from Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, honored to be included. This innovative achievement has overcome the precise visualization challenges in the field of brain-computer interfaces through interdisciplinary technological integration, opening up a new path for neuroscience research and the diagnosis and treatment of major diseases, and becoming a core benchmark for cultivating new-quality productive forces in brain-computer interfaces in Hubei.
As a major national scientific and technological strategic direction, brain-computer interfaces still face numerous difficulties in research and clinical applications. With the support of projects such as the "Action Plan for Leading the Development of Ten High-End Industries by Academicians and Experts" in Hubei Province and Wuhan City, the Innovation Cultivation Plan for the National Clinical Medical Center for Intelligent Medicine, and the Key Research and Development Plan of Hubei Province, Professor Ye Zhewei and Dr. Zhou Hong's team from Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology have made significant scientific and technological breakthroughs in this field. Their core achievements have been included in the key deployment scope for cultivating new-quality productive forces in brain-computer interfaces and intelligent medicine in Hubei Province.
Professor Ye Zhewei is the editor-in-chief of the world's first monograph on "Medical Mixed Reality" and China's first national textbook on "Intelligent Medicine." He led his team to achieve, for the first time globally, the micron-level visualization of the three-dimensional spatial relationships between brain-computer interface devices, the skull, various functional areas of the brain, and cerebrovascular tissues. This lays a solid foundation for preoperative planning, intraoperative navigation, and postoperative evaluation of brain-computer interface surgeries, making future brain-computer interface surgical operations more precise and safe.
The research has also successfully constructed the world's first micron-level three-dimensional multimodal atlas integrating the skull, brain functional areas, cerebrovascular tissues, and brain-computer interface devices. This provides a high-precision, high-dimensional, interactive, and transparent auxiliary tool for brain-computer interface research, as well as key technological support for the precise diagnosis and treatment of major diseases such as spinal cord injuries. Selected and recommended by the Ministry of Education, this achievement represented Chinese universities at the Scientific and Technological Achievements Exhibition of the "2025 World Digital Education Conference."
Editor：Zhilan Hu
