Journal
SURGICAL ENDOSCOPY AND OTHER INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES
Volume 36, Issue 5, Pages 3663-3674Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-022-09164-3
Keywords
Minimally invasive surgery; Tele-mentoring; Augmented reality; Virtual surgical instruments; Telemedicine
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- Qatar National Library
- National Priority Research Program (NPRP) award from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of The Qatar Foundation) [NPRP12S-0119-190006]
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This study developed a tele-mentoring system for minimally invasive surgery, enabling the transfer of surgical knowledge from a mentor to a mentee through the internet. The system was evaluated in a simulated environment and validated through a user study, demonstrating its feasibility as a mentoring tool.
Background Tele-mentoring during surgery facilitates the transfer of surgical knowledge from a mentor (specialist surgeon) to a mentee (operating surgeon). The aim of this work is to develop a tele-mentoring system tailored for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) where the mentor can remotely demonstrate to the mentee the required motion of the surgical instruments. Methods A remote tele-mentoring system is implemented that generates visual cues in the form of virtual surgical instrument motion overlaid onto the live view of the operative field. The technical performance of the system is evaluated in a simulated environment, where the operating room and the central location of the mentor were physically located in different countries and connected over the internet. In addition, a user study was performed to assess the system as a mentoring tool. Results On average, it took 260 ms to send a view of the operative field of 1920 x 1080 resolution from the operating room to the central location of the mentor and an average of 132 ms to receive the motion of virtual surgical instruments from the central location to the operating room. The user study showed that it is feasible for the mentor to demonstrate and for the mentee to understand and replicate the motion of surgical instruments. Conclusion The work demonstrates the feasibility of transferring information over the internet from a mentor to a mentee in the form of virtual surgical instruments. Their motion is overlaid onto the live view of the operative field enabling real-time interactions between both the surgeons.
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