Long Term Safety Area Tracking (LT-SAT) with Online Failure Detection and Recovery for Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgery

The introduction of Robotics in Minimally Invasive Surgery (RMIS) allows overcoming many of the obstacles introduced by traditional laparoscopic techniques, by improving the surgeon ’s dexterity and the ergonomics during the surgical procedure, and restoring the surgeon’s hand-eye coordination (Bravo et al., 2016; Forgione, 2009; Lanfranco et al., 2004). Despite these benefits, the outcome of the surgical procedure can still be compromised by adverse events occurring dur ing the surgery. In robotic abdominal surgery, for example, one of the major complications is intra-operative bleeding due to injuries to vessels (Trinh et al., 2012; Kaouk et al., 2012; Sotelo et al., 2014).

Source: Medical Image Analysis - December 21, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Veronica Penza, Xiaofei Du, Danail Stoyanov, Antonello Forgione, Leonardo S. Mattos, Elena De Momi Source Type: research