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Towards development of a tele‐mentoring framework for minimally invasive surgeries
Author(s) -
Shabir Dehlela,
Abdurahiman Nihal,
Padhan Jhasketan,
Trinh May,
Balakrishnan Shidin,
Kurer Mohamed,
Ali Omar,
AlAnsari Abdulla,
Yaacoub Elias,
Deng Zhigang,
Erbad Aiman,
Mohammed Amr,
Navkar Nikhil V.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the international journal of medical robotics and computer assisted surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.556
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1478-596X
pISSN - 1478-5951
DOI - 10.1002/rcs.2305
Subject(s) - invasive surgery , computer science , scope (computer science) , field (mathematics) , port (circuit theory) , work (physics) , surgical procedures , medical physics , medicine , surgery , engineering , mechanical engineering , mathematics , pure mathematics , electrical engineering , programming language
Background Tele‐mentoring facilitates the transfer of surgical knowledge. The objective of this work is to develop a tele‐mentoring framework that enables a specialist surgeon to mentor an operating surgeon by transferring information in a form of surgical instruments' motion required during a minimally invasive surgery. Method A tele‐mentoring framework is developed to transfer video stream of the surgical field, poses of the scope and port placement from the operating room to a remote location. From the remote location, the motion of virtual surgical instruments augmented onto the surgical field is sent to the operating room. Results The proposed framework is suitable to be integrated with laparoscopic as well as robotic surgeries. It takes on average 1.56 s to send information from the operating room to the remote location and 0.089 s for vice versa over a local area network. Conclusions The work demonstrates a tele‐mentoring framework that enables a specialist surgeon to mentor an operating surgeon during a minimally invasive surgery.