Augmented Reality-based telementoring

  

Prof. Ciro Esposito, Prof. Egidio De Benedetto.

Context and Goals

  • Telementoring has already been studied for various applications in surgery, mainly considering its role in teaching and for underdeveloped countries;
  • The goal is to design and develop a complete set of functional and efficient software and hardware system for telementoring, to distribute to every small centre without much experience in correcting complex pathologies in pediatric surgery, with a focus on minimally invasive surgery in urology and oncology;
  • The objective is to include advanced interaction techniques and tools to remotely guide the surgeon, not only ask for a second opinion;
  • The remote surgeon could use his laparoscopic tools (tracked) in a simulator, or an ad hoc devised haptic tool, to show on the mentee display exactly how to intervene and with which movements.

Keywords

Augmented reality, 5G, telementoring, real-time, interaction techniques.

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