Laparoscopy, minimally invasive and minimal access surgery with more surgeons performing these ad-vanced procedures. We highlight in the review several key emerging technologies such as the telementor-ing and virtual ...Laparoscopy, minimally invasive and minimal access surgery with more surgeons performing these ad-vanced procedures. We highlight in the review several key emerging technologies such as the telementor-ing and virtual reality simulators, that provide a solid ground for delivering surgical education to rural area and allow young surgeons a safety net and confidence while operating on a newly learned technique.展开更多
The utilization of surgical telementoring has become increasingly prevalent in enhancing the surgical standards of grassroots hospitals in contemporary times.In the traditional framework of surgical telementoring,remo...The utilization of surgical telementoring has become increasingly prevalent in enhancing the surgical standards of grassroots hospitals in contemporary times.In the traditional framework of surgical telementoring,remote doctors guide grassroots doctors via video and audio communication,which may encounter obstacles such as inadequate information transfer and challenges in accurately pinpointing the surgical site and path.To mitigate these issues,this study introduces an intelligent surgical telementoring system based on edge computing.This system enables the transmission of points marked by remote doctors to grassroots doctors,updating these points’coordinates in real-time on the local endoscopic video.In this system,a novel method named P2PTracking(Patchto-Pixel Point Tracking)is implemented.This process begins with the tracking of a square patch surrounding the point marked by the remote doctor using SiameseFC.Following this,feature matching is performed on the tracked patch in the current frame and the square patch in the labelled frame or template frame.The affine transformation is then calculated based on the feature matching results.Lastly,the point tracking result is derived using the computed affine transformation.Experimental results indicate that the proposed system has a transmission speed of 1.99M/s and a transmission latency of 171 ms when transmitting video at a resolution of 1920×1080px,while the proposed method can achieve an accuracy of 96.6%when the pixel error is 4.The code and data are available at https://github.com/hfut66/P2PTracking.git.展开更多
Fifth-generation wireless network,5G,is expected to bring surgery to a next level.Remote surgery and telementoring could be enabled and be brought into routine medical care due to 5G characteristics,such as extreme hi...Fifth-generation wireless network,5G,is expected to bring surgery to a next level.Remote surgery and telementoring could be enabled and be brought into routine medical care due to 5G characteristics,such as extreme high bandwidth,ultrashort latency,multiconnectivity,high mobility,high availability,and high reliability.This work explores the benefits,applications and demands of 5G for surgery.Therefore,the development of previous surgical procedures from using older networks to 5G is outlined.The current state of 5G in surgical research studies is discussed,as well as future aspects and requirements of 5G in surgery are presented.展开更多
文摘Laparoscopy, minimally invasive and minimal access surgery with more surgeons performing these ad-vanced procedures. We highlight in the review several key emerging technologies such as the telementor-ing and virtual reality simulators, that provide a solid ground for delivering surgical education to rural area and allow young surgeons a safety net and confidence while operating on a newly learned technique.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant numbers 62133004,72188101,72293585 and 62322308]the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province[grant number 2108085J33]+1 种基金the Anhui Provincial Major Science and Tech-nology Project[grant number 202203a05020010]the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities[grant numbers JZ2023HGQA0125,JZ2024HGTA0174].
文摘The utilization of surgical telementoring has become increasingly prevalent in enhancing the surgical standards of grassroots hospitals in contemporary times.In the traditional framework of surgical telementoring,remote doctors guide grassroots doctors via video and audio communication,which may encounter obstacles such as inadequate information transfer and challenges in accurately pinpointing the surgical site and path.To mitigate these issues,this study introduces an intelligent surgical telementoring system based on edge computing.This system enables the transmission of points marked by remote doctors to grassroots doctors,updating these points’coordinates in real-time on the local endoscopic video.In this system,a novel method named P2PTracking(Patchto-Pixel Point Tracking)is implemented.This process begins with the tracking of a square patch surrounding the point marked by the remote doctor using SiameseFC.Following this,feature matching is performed on the tracked patch in the current frame and the square patch in the labelled frame or template frame.The affine transformation is then calculated based on the feature matching results.Lastly,the point tracking result is derived using the computed affine transformation.Experimental results indicate that the proposed system has a transmission speed of 1.99M/s and a transmission latency of 171 ms when transmitting video at a resolution of 1920×1080px,while the proposed method can achieve an accuracy of 96.6%when the pixel error is 4.The code and data are available at https://github.com/hfut66/P2PTracking.git.
文摘Fifth-generation wireless network,5G,is expected to bring surgery to a next level.Remote surgery and telementoring could be enabled and be brought into routine medical care due to 5G characteristics,such as extreme high bandwidth,ultrashort latency,multiconnectivity,high mobility,high availability,and high reliability.This work explores the benefits,applications and demands of 5G for surgery.Therefore,the development of previous surgical procedures from using older networks to 5G is outlined.The current state of 5G in surgical research studies is discussed,as well as future aspects and requirements of 5G in surgery are presented.
