Laparoscopic surgery simulator using first person view and guidance force
Tagawa, K.; Tanaka, H.T.; Kurumi, Y.; Komori, M.; Morikawa, S.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 184: 431-435
2013
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 23400197 Document Number: 667375
In general, minimally invasive surgery is seen as the most difficult surgery because there is limited field of view with an endoscope and force sensation from surgical instruments such as forceps is poor. Especially in early clinical education for medical students, a virtual reality surgical simulator would be an effective tool. In this paper, we propose a visuohaptic surgery training system for laparoscopical techniques. We recorded a video from a first person point of view of the instructor (expert). And we also recorded operation information (i.e. trajectory) of surgical instruments of the instructor. Then, we displayed the recorded video and the guidance force to trainees. We constructed a prototype surgery training system and the effectiveness of our approach was confirmed.