A Portable da Vinci Simulator in Virtual Reality

Ferro, Marco; Brunori, Damiano; Magistri, Federico; Saiella, Lorenzo; Selvaggio, Mario; Fontanelli, Giuseppe Andrea

doi:10.1109/irc.2019.00093

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“…A reasonably low-cost portable VR trainer for the daVinci system was recently described. 44 The Fundamentals of Robotic Surgery course has been developed and validated and is becoming more widespread. 45 The FIRST exercises have also been validated.…”

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The effect of simulator fidelity on procedure skill training: a literature review

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Objective: To evaluate the effect of simulator fidelity on procedure skill training through a review of existing studies. Methods: MEDLINE, OVID and EMBASE databases were searched between January 1990 and January 2019. Search terms included "simulator fidelity and comparison" and "low fidelity" and "high fidelity" and "comparison" and "simulator". Author classification of low-and high-fidelity was used for non-laparoscopic procedures. Laparoscopic simulators are classified using a proposed schema. All included studies used a randomized methodology with two or more groups and were written in English. Data was abstracted to a standard data sheet and critically appraised from 17 eligible full papers. Results: Of 17 studies, eight were for laparoscopic and nine for other skill training. Studies employed evaluation methodologies, including subjective and objective measures. The evaluation was conducted once in 13/17 studies and beforeafter in 4/17. Didactic training only or control groups were used in 5/17 studies, while 10/17 studies included two groups only. Skill acquisition and simulator fidelity were different for the level of training in 1/17 studies. Simulation training was followed by clinical evaluation or a live animal evaluation in 3/17 studies. Low-fidelity training was not inferior to training with a high-fidelity simulator in 15/17 studies. Conclusions: Procedure skill after training with low fidelity simulators was not inferior to skill after training with high fidelity simulators in 15/17 studies. Some data suggest that the effectiveness of different fidelity simulators depends on the level of training of participants and requires further study.

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The effect of simulator fidelity on procedure skill training: a literature review

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“…Regarding robotic skill training, the use of VR-based simulators to train RAS skills is not uncommon [ 5 , 12 , 13 ]. In fact, VR is a highly appropriate technology for this, since the goal of skill training is only to learn how to use the robot console and its tools.…”

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A new mixed reality tool for training in minimally invasive robotic-assisted surgery

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Gimeno

Casanova-Salas

et al. 2023

Health Inf Sci Syst

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Robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) is developing an increasing role in surgical practice. Therefore, it is of the utmost importance to introduce this paradigm into surgical training programs. However, the steep learning curve of RAS remains a problem that hinders the development and widespread use of this surgical paradigm. For this reason, it is important to be able to train surgeons in the use of RAS procedures. RAS involves distinctive features that makes its learning different to other minimally invasive surgical procedures. One of these features is that the surgeons operate using a stereoscopic console. Therefore, it is necessary to perform RAS training stereoscopically. This article presents a mixed-reality (MR) tool for the stereoscopic visualization, annotation and collaborative display of RAS surgical procedures. The tool is an MR application because it can display real stereoscopic content and augment it with virtual elements (annotations) properly registered in 3D and tracked over time. This new tool allows the registration of surgical procedures, teachers (experts) and students (trainees), so that the teacher can share a set of videos with their students, annotate them with virtual information and use a shared virtual pointer with the students. The students can visualize the videos within a web environment using their personal mobile phones or a desktop stereo system. The use of the tool has been assessed by a group of 15 surgeons during a robotic-surgery master’s course. The results show that surgeons consider that this tool can be very useful in RAS training.

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“…Kim et al used two haptic devices and pedals to manipulate surgical tools in a simulation using VR and a 3D printed support fixture for training in endoscopic sinus and skull-base surgery [26]. Ferro et al extended the simulator to use a commercial haptic controller in addition to the existing special haptic controller to increase the accessibility of the simulation developed on the da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) platform [27]. Knopp et al proposed a method of using an industrial robot as a haptic device to provide strong force feedback to trainees in surgeries requiring high force such as hip replacement surgery [28].…”

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Virtual Reality Simulation of High Tibial Osteotomy for Medical Training

Han

Sung

Shin

2022

Mobile Information Systems

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The quality of surgical operation is very important for the patients’ safety and the reduction of aftereffects after surgery. To do this, practicing surgical operations is also increasingly important. Due to the development of hardware and simulation techniques such as virtual reality (VR), VR simulators have been developed as a method to train surgeons and medical students majoring in surgery. In addition, controllers that support various kinds of haptic feedback have also been developed for a more realistic and immersive user experience. In this study, we introduce a morphable haptic controller that provides geometric and tactile feedback to users and propose a VR simulation system using this controller. This system is designed to perform a high tibial osteotomy in a virtual environment. The morphable haptic controller attached to the system through the input mapping daemon provides the senses of multiple surgical instruments used in the simulation. As a result, the haptic controller achieves an outstanding result through an actual interaction between surgical tools and the surgical sites. We verified that this was effective in surgery training through orthopedic surgeons.

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A Portable da Vinci Simulator in Virtual Reality

Cited by 15 publications

References 4 publications

The effect of simulator fidelity on procedure skill training: a literature review

The effect of simulator fidelity on procedure skill training: a literature review

A new mixed reality tool for training in minimally invasive robotic-assisted surgery

Virtual Reality Simulation of High Tibial Osteotomy for Medical Training

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