Surgical telerobotics visualization and performance evaluation

本研究建议是在我们最近的研究结果和我们实验室其他研究人员的研究结果的背景下提出的，作为计算机辅助手术，远程机器人和手术模拟人机界面设计领域的一部分。 为了通过一组更集中的研究来解决这些系统设计中的一些问题，我们确定了与加拿大医疗保健显著相关的四种临床手术：微创心脏手术、超声引导前列腺活检、机器人辅助泌尿外科手术和腹腔镜胆囊切除术。 从研究的角度来看，这些服务于为我们的系统设计提供明确的要求，并允许我们解决其验证和评估的客观指标的规范。该提案强调了对涉及其可用性的评估程序的批判性观点的必要性，并主张与人类可视化和空间推理的基础科学研究并行进行这些研究，以便为这些人机界面的设计提供信息。

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.