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Emerging Technologies for Healthcare during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published in Sam Goundar, Archana Purwar, Ajmer Singh, Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Internet of Things in Sustainable Development, 2023
Wireless and satellite communication channels, machine learning, imaging technology, artificial intelligence, and tele-surgical robotics can be used to carry out remote surgery in different regions by supervising the surgical robots (Zeadally & Bello, 2021). Remote-controlled robotic surgery can decrease the risks and increase precision so that consequences of surgical decisions can be assessed with patient risk factors (Matheny et al., 2019). Heart failure before symptoms even arise can be found by machine learning and neural networks (Farrugia & Plutowski, 2020). Personalizing chemotherapy dosing and mapping patient response, determining the best surveillance intervals for colonoscopy exams, and best treatment options for complex diseases are types of personalized management and treatment; a patient-centered medical homes model (Matheny et al., 2019).
5G Smart and Innovative Healthcare Services: Opportunities, Challenges, and Prospective Solutions
Published in Zoran S. Bojkovic, Dragorad A. Milovanovic, Tulsi Pawan Fowdur, 5G Multimedia Communication, 2020
Girish Bekaroo, Aditya Santokhee, Juan Carlos Augusto
On the other hand, in remote surgery or telesurgery, the entire surgical procedure is controlled by a surgeon from a remote location, and the procedure normally involves utilization of robotic systems. Since its first application in medicine in 1985, robots have slowly integrated into operation rooms of many hospitals around the world (Beasley, 2012). Among the surgical robots, the da Vinci Surgical System is considered as the most popular one where over 4000 units have been installed around the world whereby facilitating more than 5 million surgeries using a minimally invasive approach. Throughout the surgical procedure tele-operated by this medical robotic system, a surgeon sits at a special console within the same room as the patient and is able to view the operative field through 3D small cameras while at the same time manipulating surgical instruments attached to robotic arms to perform the surgery. Robotically assisted surgery has been successful in different medical disciplines including laparoscopy, orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery. The use of robotic systems within surgery brings different advantages including improved precision, flexibility and control, in addition to remote access to surgical sites (Burgner-Kahrs, et al., 2015). Although during the past decade, there has been some use of surgical robots, 5G provides opportunities for more substantial growth of such robotic systems in order to enhance the benefits of minimally invasive surgery, while also creating avenues for their applications in new types of surgical procedures (Beasley, 2012). For instance, use of surgical robots can be extended such that expert surgeons having specialized robotic consoles within their offices can conduct surgical procedures on patients located in a remote location (e.g., operation room in a different building or even hundreds of miles away within a different hospital). In the past, such types of operations were limited due to the maximum delay of 150 ms that remote telesurgery can tolerate (Lema, et al., 2017). However, the ultralow communication delay within 5G addresses this concern where commands from robotic arms and systems can be transmitted smoothly. Furthermore, due to high bandwidth possible with 5G, surgeons operating surgical robots will be able to benefit from high-definition view of the operative field in real time. These advances in telesurgeries will not only improve access to expert surgeons through reduced traveling needs for performing surgeries but also provide surgical services to patients located within rural areas or in developing countries whereby improving collaboration between surgeons.
Toward Standard Guidelines to Design the Sense of Embodiment in Teleoperation Applications: A Review and Toolbox
Published in Human–Computer Interaction, 2023
Sara Falcone, Gwenn Englebienne, Jan Van Erp, Dirk Heylen
Robot-assisted surgery was developed to overcome the limitations of preexisting minimally invasive surgical procedures and to enhance the capabilities of surgeons. The surgeon uses a direct telemanipulator, or a computer control, to control the device and the instruments. Another advantage of using robot-assisted surgery is that the surgeon does not have to be present, leading to the possibility for remote surgery. In this scenario, tasks of microassembly and microteleoperation are common. The main challenge is to create a connection and transparency between the macro world of the operators and the nano world in which they have to tele-operate the system. Particularly, the focus is on optimizing the motion control in constrained workspaces (Funda et al., 1996), and increasing dexterity and degrees of freedom (Madhani et al., 1998) safely. For a surgical scenario, especially due to the importance of tasks involving hand-eye coordination, the relevant embodiment components are: the sense of agency and self-location.
SMOTE: An Intelligent SDN-Based Multi-Objective Traffic Engineering Technique for Telesurgery
Published in IETE Journal of Research, 2023
Reza Mohammadi, Reza Javidan, Manijeh Keshtgari, Negar Rikhtegar
Telesurgery or remote surgery is a branch of telemedicine in which patients can be investigated, treated and operated; where the patient and the surgeon located away from each other [1–3]. A major goal of telesurgery is to deliver surgical services to remote locations such as rural areas in order to eliminate unnecessary travelling of patients and their clinicians [2–4]. As a matter of fact, in telesurgery, the remote surgeon has the same view with the surgical team who are located at the operating room beside the patient.