Surgical telerobotics visualization and performance evaluation

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This research proposal is presented within the context of our recent results, and those of other researcher in our lab, as part of the field of the design of Human-Computer Interfaces for Computer-Assisted Surgery, Tele-Robotics, and Surgical Simulation. In order to address some issues in the design of these systems through a more focussed set of studies, we have identified four clinical procedures that are significantly relevant to Canadian Healthcare: Minimally-Invasive Cardiac Surgery, Ultrasound-Guided Prostate Biopsy, Robotically-Assisted Urological Surgery, and Laparoscopic Cholecsytectomy. From a research perspective, these serve to provide well-defined requirements for our system designs, and allow us to address the specification of objective metrics for their verification and evaluation. This proposal stresses the need for a critical viewpoint on the evaluative procedures involving their usability, and argues for conducting these in parallel with Basic Science Research in Human Visualization and Spatial Reasoning, in order to inform the design of these human-computer interfaces.