Millions of patients suffering from eye disease cannot receive proper treatment due to the lack of qualified surgeons. Medical robots have the potential to solve this problem and have attracted significant attention in the research community.
Method
This paper proposes a novel parallel robot with a remote centre of motion for minimally invasive eye surgery. Kinematics models, singularity and workspace analyses, and dimension optimisation are conducted. A prototype was developed, and experiments were conducted to test its mobility, accuracy, precision and stiffness.
Results
The prototype robot can successfully perform the required motions, and has a precision ranging from 7 ± 2 μm to 30 ± 8 μm, accuracy from 21 ± 10 μm to 568 ± 374 μm, and stiffness ranging from 1.22 ± 0.39 N/mm to 10.53 ± 5.18 N/mm.
Conclusion
The prototype robot has a great potential for performing the minimally invasive surgery. Its stiffness meets the design requirement, but its accuracy and precision need to be further improved.
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Robot-assisted microsurgery (RAMS) is gradually becoming the preferred method for some delicate surgical procedures. However, the lack of haptic feedback reduces the safety of the surgery. Surgeons are unable to feel the grasping force between surgical instruments and the patient's tissues, which can easily lead to grasping failure or tissue damage.
Methods
This paper proposes a tendon-driven grasping force feedback mechanism, consisting of a follower hand and a leader hand, to address the lack of grasping force feedback in flexible surgical robots. Considering the friction in the tendon transmission process, a grasping force estimation model is established for the follower hand. The admittance control model is designed for force/position control of the leader hand.
Results
Through experimental validation, it has been confirmed that the grasping force sensing range of the follower hand is 0.5–5 N, with a sensing accuracy of 0.3 N. The leader hand is capable of providing feedback forces in the range of 0–5 N, with a static force accuracy of 0.1 N.
Conclusions
The designed mechanism and control strategy can provide the grasping force feedback function. Future work will focus on improving force feedback performance.
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Wenjie Wang, Boqiang Jia, Jianwei Ma, Xiaohua Wang, Huajian Song
Background
During a robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, hand tremors in a surgeon's manipulation of the master manipulator can cause vibrations of the slave surgical instruments.
Methods
This letter addresses this problem by proposing an improved Enhanced Band-Limited Multiple Linear Fourier Combiner (E-BMFLC) algorithm for filtering the physiological tremor signals of a surgeon's hand. The proposed method uses the amplitude of the input signal to adapt the learning rate and a dense division of the combiner bands for the higher amplitude bands of the tremor signals.
Results
By using the proposed improved E-BMFLC algorithm, the compensation accuracy can be improved by 4.5%–8.9%, as well as a spatial position error of less than 1 mm.
Conclusion
The results show that among all filtering methods, the improved E-BMFLC filtering method has the highest number of successful experiments and the lowest experimental time.
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Seung Duk Lee, Kush Savsani, Sarah Ziqi Wang, Chandra Bhati, Yuzuru Sambommatsu, Daisuke Imai, Aamir Khan, Irfan Saeed, Amit Sharma, Vinay Kumaran, Adrian Cotterell, Marlon Levy, David A. Bruno
Background
Robotic surgery is associated with less tissue manipulation and earlier recovery with minimal incision. The aim of this study was to compare the short-term clinical outcomes between robotic-assisted donor nephrectomy (RDN) and open mini-incision donor nephrectomy (ODN).
Methods
From 2016 to 2019, 141 cases involving RDN were analysed. Patient outcomes were compared with those of 191 patients who underwent ODN from 2010 to 2015. Demographics, operation factors, perioperative outcomes, and complications were retrospectively reviewed.
Results
The RDN group presented with less blood loss than the ODN group (p = 0.023). The length of hospital stay was significantly shorter in the RDN group than in the ODN group (p < 0.005). The overall rate of complications was low and there was no significant difference in complication rates between the groups.
Conclusion
The robotic approach has benefits over the traditional open approach, including shorter length of hospital stay and reduced intraoperative blood loss.
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Robotic assisted surgery (RAS) has seen significant advancement in many surgical specialties, although the application of robotics in plastic and reconstructive surgery remains to be widely established. This systematic review aims to assess the role of RAS in plastic and reconstructive surgery.
Methods
The review protocol was published and registered a priori as CRD42024507420. A comprehensive electronic search for relevant studies was performed in MEDLINE, Embase and Google scholar databases.
Results
Overall, 132 studies were initially identified, of which, 44 studies satisfied the eligibility criteria with a cumulative total of 239 patients. RAS demonstrated a high degree of procedural success and anastomotic patency in microvascular procedures. There was no significant difference in periprocedural adverse events between robotic and manual procedures.
Conclusion
RAS can be feasibly implemented in plastic and reconstructive surgery with a good efficacy and safety profile, particularly for microsurgical anastomosis and trans-oral surgery.
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Blood accumulation often occurs during bleeding in surgery. Simulating the blood accumulation in surgical simulation system not only enhances the realism and immersion of surgical training, but also helps researchers better understand the physical properties of blood flow.
Methods
To realistically simulate the blood accumulation during the bleeding, this paper proposes a novel kernel function with non-negative second derivatives to improve the SPH method. Meanwhile, a simple form of boundary force equation is constructed to impose the solid boundary condition.
Results
We simulate the blood accumulation during liver bleeding and vessel bleeding respectively in the surgical simulation system. The simulation results show that there is no occurrence of blood physically penetrating the boundary.
Conclusions
Applying the solid boundary condition to the blood by using the method proposed in this paper is not only convenient but can also eliminate compression instability in the blood accumulation simulation.
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This study aimed to develop a novel deep convolutional neural network called Dual-path Double Attention Transformer (DDA-Transformer) designed to achieve precise and fast knee joint CT image segmentation and to validate it in robotic-assisted total knee arthroplasty (TKA).
Methods
The femoral, tibial, patellar, and fibular segmentation performance and speed were evaluated and the accuracy of component sizing, bone resection and alignment of the robotic-assisted TKA system constructed using this deep learning network was clinically validated.
Results
Overall, DDA-Transformer outperformed six other networks in terms of the Dice coefficient, intersection over union, average surface distance, and Hausdorff distance. DDA-Transformer exhibited significantly faster segmentation speeds than nnUnet, TransUnet and 3D-Unet (p < 0.01). Furthermore, the robotic-assisted TKA system outperforms the manual group in surgical accuracy.
Conclusions
DDA-Transformer exhibited significantly improved accuracy and robustness in knee joint segmentation, and this convenient and stable knee joint CT image segmentation network significantly improved the accuracy of the TKA procedure.
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Haiyan Du, Xinran Zhang, Yongde Zhang, Fujun Zhang, Letao Lin, Tao Huang
Background
At present, the number and overall level of ultrasound (US) doctors cannot meet the medical needs, and the medical ultrasound robots will largely solve the shortage of medical resources.
Methods
According to the degree of automation, the handheld, semi-automatic and automatic ultrasound examination robot systems are summarised. Ultrasound scanning path planning and robot control are the keys to ensure that the robot systems can obtain high-quality images. Therefore, the ultrasound scanning path planning and control methods are summarised. The research progress and future trends are discussed.
Results
A variety of ultrasound robot systems have been applied to various medical works. With the continuous improvement of automation, the systems provide high-quality ultrasound images and image guidance for clinicians.
Conclusion
Although the development of medical ultrasound robot still faces challenges, with the continuous progress of robot technology and communication technology, medical ultrasound robot will have great development potential and broad application space.
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Despite partial nephrectomy (PN) renal function preservation benefits, postoperative renal dysfunction may occur. Perirenal fat thickness (PFT) is associated with renal dysfunction such as diabetes; however, its role in renal tumour surgery is unclear. This study investigates the role of PFT in renal function after robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN).
Methods
Pre-operative factors for postoperative renal dysfunction were analysed in 156 patients undergoing RAPN with ≥1-year follow-up. PFT measured using computed tomography categorised patients with PFT >21.0 mm (median) as high-PFT.
Results
Tumour size, total R.E.N.A.L. nephrometry score and its N component, renal calyx opening, achievement of trifecta, and PFT were risk factors for renal dysfunction 1 year postoperatively. Age ≥75 years (p = 0.024), total RNS ≥7 (p = 0.036), and PFT >21.0 mm (p = 0.002) significantly correlated with postoperative renal dysfunction.
Conclusions
CT-measured PFT is a valuable predictor of postoperative renal dysfunction.
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Minimally invasive percutaneous plate osteosynthesis for humeral shaft fractures (HSFs) has limitations due to malreduction and radiation exposure. To address these limitations, we integrated robotics and 3D printing by incorporating plates as reduction templates.
Method
The innovative technology facilitated closed reduction of HSFs in the operating theatre using 18 models with cortical marking holes. The dataset of the precontoured plate was imported into 3D planning software for virtual fixation and screw path planning. The models were divided into half to simulate transverse fractures. During the operation, the software generated drilling trajectories for robot navigation, and precise plate installation achieved automatic fracture reduction.
Results
The evaluation results of reduction accuracy revealed variations in length, apposition, alignment, and rotation that meet the criteria for anatomic reduction. High interoperator reliabilities were observed for all parameters.
Conclusions
The proposed technology achieved anatomic reduction in simulated bones.
背景：微创经皮钢板骨合成术治疗肱骨轴骨折（HSFs）有其局限性，原因是钢板还原不良和辐射暴露。为了解决这些局限性，我们整合了机器人技术和 3D 打印技术，将钢板作为还原模板：方法：这项创新技术利用 18 个带有皮质标记孔的模型，在手术室内完成了 HSF 的闭合复位。预轮廓钢板的数据集被导入三维规划软件，用于虚拟固定和螺钉路径规划。模型被分成两半，以模拟横向骨折。在操作过程中，软件为机器人导航生成钻孔轨迹，钢板的精确安装实现了骨折的自动复位：结果：骨折复位精确度的评估结果显示，长度、位置、对齐和旋转的变化符合解剖复位的标准。所有参数的操作员间可靠性都很高：结论：所提出的技术实现了模拟骨骼的解剖复位。
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