Andrius Budrionis
Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Gunnar Hartvigsen
Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Johan Gustav Bellika
Norwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway
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Published in: SHI 2015, Proceedings from The 13th Scandinavien Conference on Health Informatics, June 15-17, 2015, Tromsø, Norway
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 14:1, p. 1-5
Published: 2015-06-26
ISBN: 978-91-7685-985-8
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
Advances in surgical telementoring systems open new grounds for enhancing the remote supervision and training of the sur-geons. Verbal communication links between the mentor and mentee are being upgraded with graphical annotation, medi-cal image and 3D model overlay capacities. While the advanc-ing setups are regulated as verbal communication systems, the potential patient safety risks introduced by the extra features are rarely evaluated. In this paper surgical camera movement is researched in the context of the advanced telementoring systems. The analysis of potential computational techniques to eliminate its impact on the quality of remote supervision is presented. Focusing on the mobile platforms as common re-mote side telementoring hardware, an architecture for distrib-uted telementoring system is proposed that eliminates the re-sources bottleneck for highly computationally intensive live video processing tasks.
telementoring; telestration; laparoscopic; endoscopic; annotation; camera movement; tracking; distributed architecture
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