Towards development of a tele‐mentoring framework for minimally invasive surgeries. Issue 5 (18th July 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Shabir, Dehlela; Abdurahiman, Nihal; Padhan, Jhasketan; Trinh, May; Balakrishnan, Shidin; Kurer, Mohamed; Ali, Omar; Al‐Ansari, Abdulla; Yaacoub, Elias; Deng, Zhigang; Erbad, Aiman; Mohammed, Amr; Navkar, Nikhil V.
• Is Part Of: International journal of medical robotics and computer assisted surgery. Volume 17:Issue 5(2021)
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• Publication Date: 2021-07-18
• Subjects: augmented reality -- minimally invasive surgeries -- tele‐mentoring -- telemedicine; Robotics in medicine -- Periodicals; Surgery -- Technological innovations -- Periodicals; Imaging systems in medicine -- Periodicals; 617.90285
• DOI: 10.1002/rcs.2305
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1478-5951

Abstract

Abstract: 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.