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The Surgical Assistant Workstation

Balazs , Vagvolgyi, Simon , DiMaio, Anton , Deguet, Peter , Kazanzides, Rajesh , Kumar, Christopher , Hasser, Russell , Taylor
Johns Hopkins University
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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/10380/1466
New: Prefer using the following doi: https://doi.org/10.54294/faegg8
Published in The MIDAS Journal - MICCAI 2008 Workshop: Systems and Architectures for Computer Assisted Interventions.
Submitted by Peter Kazanzides on 2008-07-25T20:14:53Z.

The Surgical Assistant Workstation (SAW) is a software development framework that can be used to develop new applications in robot-assisted surgery with augmented visualization. Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery and micro-surgery as presented by the da Vinci telerobotic system and the Johns Hopkins Steady Hand, respectively can be improved by providing fully-integrated image guidance and information-enhanced intra-operative assistance to the surgical team and to the surgeon in particular. This paper describes several use case applications of the SAW framework, as well as a novel user interface library being developed to support 3D interactive menu systems and overlays for surgical guidance.