A robotized surgeon assistant

Author

Wang, T. ; Fadda, M. ; Marcacci, M. ; Martelli, S. ; Dario, P. ; Visani, A.

Volume

2

fYear

1994

fDate

12-16 Sep 1994

Firstpage

862

Abstract

Among several applications of robotics in medicine, robotic surgery represents one of the most promising scientific challenges for the research community. Its main expectations are to increase the quality of interventions, to decrease the intervention time and to reduce health care costs, by combining the analysis capabilities of imaging systems with the precision of robot manipulators. This paper introduces our surgical robotic system, describing in details the presurgical planning, surgeon-robot interface, matching between the virtual image and real robot workspace, safety considerations, knee implantation procedure, and experimental analysis about precision and errors

Keywords

computer vision; image matching; planning; robots; safety; surgery; user interfaces; image matching; imaging systems; knee implantation; manipulators; presurgical planning; robotic surgeon assistant; robotic surgery; safety; surgeon-robot interface; Biomedical imaging; Costs; Image analysis; Manipulators; Medical robotics; Medical services; Robots; Safety; Surgery; Surges;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems '94. 'Advanced Robotic Systems and the Real World', IROS '94. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ/GI International Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1933-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.1994.407491

Filename

407491