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Multi-view vision system for laparoscopy surgery

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Purpose

A global endoscopic view of the surgical field could help avoid complications such as perforation of occluded organs and may reduce the endoscope displacements and also the usual time of laparoscopic procedure using a conventional endoscopy system. An augmented laparoscopy system was developed by increasing the field of view of a traditional endoscope. This system was implemented and tested in vitro using a testbench.

Method

High-definition miniature cameras were integrated into a traditional endoscope to obtain a panoramic vision device with a large field of view of the abdominal cavity. The additional cameras are mounted around the endoscopy body as a pair of glasses providing a global view of the abdominal cavity completing the traditional endoscopic view. Each camera can reach a frame rate of 30 images/second with a resolution of 1,600 \(\times \) 1,200 pixels. To be able to fix the cameras to the endoscope, a deployment, fixation and rapid extraction system of the proposed device through the trocar was designed and validated in preclinical experiments (testbench and human cadaver). The preclinical experiments compared the time required to perform a pick-and-place task with the traditional endoscope alone and with the proposed system alone.

Results

A statistically significant reduction in procedure time was found using an augmented video endoscopy system for a pick-and-place task.

Conclusion

An augmented laparoscopy system with increased field of view is feasible and may be advantageous compared with a traditional endoscope. In vivo testing of the system should be done to establish the clinical utility of this innovation.

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Acknowledgments

This work is partially conducted with financial support from the project ”Projet ANR-TECSAN 2009 DEPORRA” funded by the program TecSan from the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France.

Conflict of interest

Brahim Tamadazte, Anthony Agustinos, Philippe Cinquin, Gaelle Fiard, Sandrine Voros declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Ethnical approval

Note also that the cadaver experimentation was per formed with the “Anatomy laboratory of the Grenoble Hospital” after submission of a research protocol (with the Grenoble CIC-IT (Centre d’Investigation Clinique et d’Innovation Technologique) in accordance with to the French Hospitals regulations.

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  1. FEMTO-ST Institute, AS2M Department, Université de Franche-Comté/CNRS/ENSMM/UTBM, 24 rue Savary, 25000 , Besano̧n, France

    Brahim Tamadazte

  2. GMCAO Team / TIMC-IMAG Laboratory, Domaine de la Merci, 38706 , La Tronche Cedex, France

    Anthony Agustinos, Philippe Cinquin & Sandrine Voros

  3. Grenoble University Hospital, 38000 , Grenoble, France

    Gaelle Fiard

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The concept proposed in this paper, as well as preliminary experiments were very briefly presented in a 4-pages article in the Proceedings of 35th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2013).

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Tamadazte, B., Agustinos, A., Cinquin, P. et al. Multi-view vision system for laparoscopy surgery. Int J CARS 10, 195–203 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11548-014-1064-2

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