Co-axial Projective Imaging for Augmented Reality Telementoring in Skin Cancer Surgery.

ABSTRACT: Telemedicine has the potential to overcome the unequal distribution of medical resources worldwide. In this study, we report the second-generation co-axial projective imaging (CPI-2) system featured with orthotopic image projection for augmented reality surgical telementoring. The CPI-2 system can acquire surgical scene images from the local site, transmit them wirelessly to the remote site, and project the virtual annotations drawn by a remote expert with great accuracy to the surgical field. The performance characteristics of the CPI-2 system are quantitatively verified in benchtop experiments. The ex vivo study that compares the CPI-2 system and a monitor-based telementoring system shows that the CPI-2 system can reduce the focus shift and avoid subjective mapping of the instructions fr

SUBMITTER: Zhang F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9255459 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature