Where Robotic Surgery Meets the Metaverse

Leeuwen, F.W.B. van; Hage, Jos A. van der

doi:10.3390/cancers14246161

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“…In particular, 3DVMs allow GPS-like surgical navigation strategies and elevate the quality of traditional intraoperative ultrasounds or fluorescence imaging [22].…”

Section: Uroverse and Peduroversementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In fact, medical imaging usually adopts a supine patient position, while, in urologic surgery, the flank one is preferred. In this way, a change in the spatial relationships easily takes place, as well as pneumoperitoneum-related additional deformations of the abdominal wall that may lead to a further loss of preoperative landmarks, including creating some artifacts until real-time correction [22]. For these reasons, new software for adaptable and prismatic algorithms are required.…”

Section: Scheme 1 Peduroverse Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Pediatric Urology Metaverse

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In the last decades, a digital revolution has transformed several aspects of people’s lives worldwide. Consequently, many substantial changes have concerned numerous professional environments, including medical ones. Among all the different new instruments available in this field, the metaverse is the most futuristic one and seems to be likewise promising. The metaverse is an emerging resource in healthcare, resulting from the integration of virtual and physical reality. It is particularly valuable in surgical operations, since it allows surgeons to perfectly visualize patients’ anatomy. Metaverse applications even include the pediatric field—in particular, the implementation of children and parents’ shared decision-making processes, as well as prenatal diagnosis and fetal surgery. This resource further represents a rising opportunity in pediatric urology: the development of 3D virtual models and robotic surgery will allow surgeons to explore surgical fields, perfectionating their own professional skills. The metaverse will empower pediatric urologists, patients and their families in many ways, and each one of them deserves to be explored to the fullest. In this work, we aim to discuss the current applications of the metaverse in pediatric urology and its future perspectives.

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“…In particular, 3DVMs allow GPS-like surgical navigation strategies and elevate the quality of traditional intraoperative ultrasounds or fluorescence imaging [22].…”

Section: Uroverse and Peduroversementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Scheme 1 Peduroverse Applicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pediatric Urology Metaverse

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“…9 Automated model overlapping involves registration algorithms based on fixed landmark images inside the visual surgical field, but patient positioning and respiratory motion, along with CO 2 insufflation, endoscopic camera movements and surgical tissue manipulation cause image deformations making useless any landmarks and causing major overlapping inaccuracies. 10 Initial improvements in this field were made introducing "elastic" 3DVM and real-time correction of movement artifacts based on computer vision algorithms, allowing successful recognition of endophytic renal masses during robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN). 11 AI algorithms could guide the automated real-time warping of the 3DVM to match the elasticity of soft tissues, though, in order for these technologies to be standardized and widely implemented in daily clinical practice, a greater computing power needs to be reached along with multispecialty consensus on surgical approaches and coordinated large-scale data collection.…”

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confidence: 99%

What can the metaverse do for urology?

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Everyone talks about the metaverse but few know what it really is. Augmented reality, virtual reality, internet of things (IoT), 5G, blockchain: these are just some of the technologies underlying the structure of the metaverse, a sort of parallel dimension in which the physical and virtual worlds merge together enabling users to interact by emerging technologies in order to enhance their actions and decisions. The healthcare scientific community is already looking at the metaverse as a new research frontier, a tool to improve medical knowledge and patient care. We reviewed the metaverse applications and services, looking for those that could best be developed in the urological field. Urology, due to its technological nature, is a privileged laboratory for experimenting and exploiting the applications of the metaverse both inside and outside the operating room. The revolution of the metaverse is already happening, which is why it is necessary that urologists face it as protagonists in order to lead it in the right direction.

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“…Innovations in the region where it will be used can change the use of robotic devices. It has been stated that robotic surgery technology will reach better levels with the use of pre-imaging techniques, surgical imaging techniques and 3D space analysis and machine learning together [15]. There are studies aiming to improve surgery by projecting Microsoft HoloLens on the patient during surgery.…”

Section: A Metaverse In Surgerymentioning

confidence: 99%

Metaverse in Medicine

2023

Proceeding Book of 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Academic Research ICCAR 2023

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Rising healthcare costs, an aging population and a shortage of healthcare personnel were putting health systems under strain. In addition to all these problems, the Covid-19 pandemic broke out in the world. With the pandemic, patients' access to existing healthcare systems was restricted due to health policies or lack of healthcare services. It has driven health professionals and technology developers to search. There has been an increase in computer-mediated virtual environments in alternative healthcare systems to provide rehabilitation for patients before they arrive at the hospital and education for medical students before they arrive in the classroom. Metaverse technology is promising to fill this gap in healthcare. The aim of this article is to categorize and present the metaverse developments in healthcare, covering treatment, imaging and evaluation, medical education, preventive health and health ethics issues. The study is presented as a review of studies using metaverse by reviewing the literature. As a result, metaverse applications of our future may increase access to health and reduce health costs. The use of metaverse technology with wearable technology can make access and control of people's health data continuous. In addition to these gains, there should be more focus on ethical violations that may occur in the field of health.

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Where Robotic Surgery Meets the Metaverse

Abstract: With a focus on hepatobiliary surgery, the review by Giannone et al [...]

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