Human Computer Hybrid Surgical System

ISBN-13: 9783639158571 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 116 str.

Chuan Feng

Opis

Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) is a surgicaltechnique involving small incisions performed by anendoscope and several long, thin instruments. MISminimizes complications and speeds up recovery timecompared to the traditional surgery. Unfortunately,from a surgeons perspective, MIS is much morechallenging than conventional open surgery because ofthe limited vision and sensing feedbacks. In the last decade, we have witnessed dramaticincreases in performance of computerized assistedsystem, achieved through increasing computationalcapabilities and advances in sensor designs. Theobjective of this research is to design and realize anovel prototype that advances the state of the art insurgical training, assessment, and guidance for MIS.The proposed Situational Awareness Enhancing System(SAES) uses a unified framework incorporatingperception, comprehension, and projection softwaremodules that provide feedback during the exercisesand enable evaluation of the training procedure. Thelow cost solution would permit our system to not onlymeasure a trainees progress in acquiring psychomotorskills, but also to evaluate instrument effectivenessin reducing error.

O autorze

Chuan Feng got his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
in 2007, from the University of Arizona. He also holds a MS
degree in Computer Science and a BS degree in Electrical
Engineering from Tsinghua University, China. His research
interests are in the area of biomedical engineering, human
computer interface, and model based systems design.