Affordable Mobile-based Simulator for Robotic Surgery
Piyamate Wisanuvej, Petros Giataganas, Paul Riordan, Jean Nehme, and, Danail Stoyanov

TL;DR
This paper introduces an affordable mobile simulator for robotic surgery training, aiming to reduce costs and increase accessibility for developing essential surgical skills.
Contribution
It presents a novel mobile dexterity training kit with a portable design and a simulated environment for practicing robotic surgical gestures.
Findings
Demonstrated usability of the system for surgical skill development
Showed potential for cost-effective training in robotic surgery
Validated the system's effectiveness through preliminary study
Abstract
Robotic surgery and novel surgical instrumentation present great potentials towards safer, more accurate and consistent minimally invasive surgery. However, their adoption is dependent to the access to training facilities and extensive surgical training. Robotic instruments require different dexterity skills compared to open or laparoscopic. Surgeons, therefore, are required to invest significant time by attending extensive training programs. Contrary, hands on experiences represent an additional operational cost for hospitals as the availability of robotic systems for training purposes is limited. All these technological and financial barriers for surgeons and hospitals hinder the adoption of robotic surgery. In this paper, we present a mobile dexterity training kit to develop basic surgical techniques within an affordable setting. The system could be used to train basic surgical…
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Taxonomy
TopicsSurgical Simulation and Training · Augmented Reality Applications · Soft Robotics and Applications
