Intelligent assistance in operation of active catheter for minimum invasive surgery

Author

Arai, Fumihito ; Ito, Masahiro ; Fukuda, Toshio ; Negoro, Makoto ; Naito, Toru

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech.-Inf. & Syst., Nagoya Univ., Japan

fYear

1994

fDate

18-20 Jul 1994

Firstpage

192

Lastpage

197

Abstract

It is important to assist doctors in operating the (active) catheter in complex and narrow brain blood vessels aiming at the minimum invasive surgery. We propose the concept of the intelligent medical assistance system for the operation of the active catheter. To realize the system we built a prototype of a basic system consisting of a joy-stick and a 3D computer graphics display. The joystick is used for the command input and the force display. We evaluated the effectiveness of the prototype and the proposed assistance methods through the experiments

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomedical telemetry; brain; computerised control; force control; interactive devices; knowledge based systems; medical computing; solid modelling; surgery; telecontrol; 3D computer graphics display; active catheter; command input; force display; intelligent assistance; intelligent medical assistance system; joy-stick; minimum invasive surgery; narrow brain blood vessels; Biomedical imaging; Blood vessels; Catheters; Computed tomography; Displays; Graphics; Humans; Medical diagnostic imaging; Minimally invasive surgery; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Robot and Human Communication, 1994. RO-MAN '94 Nagoya, Proceedings., 3rd IEEE International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Nagoya

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2002-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ROMAN.1994.365932

Filename

365932