Implementation and analysis of scalable display architecture for laparoscopy

We report on a display system to support laparoscopy by loosely coupling input sensors (e.g., cameras) with outputs (e.g., image displays). A low-latency and general-purpose computing platform is inserted between the traditionally tightly-coupled inputs and outputs of a laparoscopic surgical environment. The architecture of the proposed system provides flexibility in the fusion and augmentation of multiple input data sources and in the display of the data on a scalable large display. The performance of the described system is measured. The result indicates that our system has great potential to improve the performance of laparoscopic surgeons.