Medical operations are vulnerable to global supply chain fluctuations. The ability to locally produce and reliably sterilize medical equipment may mitigate this risk. This project developed a reliable...
Surgical instruments and consumables were designed and printed from various materials. Devices contaminated with known and unknown bacteria underwent one of three cleaning methods followed by high-lev...
The results of control experiments showed no growth on negative controls and significant growth on all positive control plates. Of the three cleaning methods tested, one showed no growth: cleaning wit...
This project successfully developed a rapid high-level disinfection process for 3D printed surgical instruments made from two different types of 3D printing material....
The management of surgical instruments is related to the safety and efficiency of surgical operations, and a surgical instruments information management system (SIIMS) has been developed. The aim of t...
We conducted a study to assess the effectiveness and safety of three different surgical instruments for enucleation in treating high-risk benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). These instruments include ...
In a retrospective analysis, 237 patients diagnosed with high-risk benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) underwent prostate enucleation using three different groups of surgical instruments at the Departm...
The red and green laser surgical instrument groups demonstrated superiority over the plasma group in several aspects. (1) Operation Time: *1* Red laser group: 87.9 ± 14.7 minutes; *1* Green laser grou...
Red laser, green laser and plasma surgical devices were safe and effective in the treatment of high critical benign prostatic hyperplasia; laser surgical devices showed better performance in terms of ...
Surgical instrument packaging quality directly affects the safety and performance of surgery. We aimed to investigate the factors causing defects in surgical instrument packaging and recommend strateg...
We collected surgical instrument packaging data regarding age, gender, length of service, educational background, number of staff dealing with packaging, time period of packaging, instrument specifica...
Length of service, educational background, number of staff dealing with packaging, time period of packaging, instrument structure, whether the wrap was intact, whether the wrap reached the required qu...
This study reveals that various factors are associated with defects in surgical instrument packaging. Recommendations for reducing incidences of defects include improved scheduling of packaging worklo...
Recent tele-mentoring technologies for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) augments the operative field with movements of virtual surgical instruments as visual cues. The objective of this work is to ass...
A user study was conducted to assess three different user-interface devices (Oculus-Rift, SpaceMouse, Touch Haptic device) under various scenarios. The devices were integrated with a MIS tele-mentorin...
The user study revealed that Oculus Rift is preferred during robotic scenarios, whereas the touch haptic device is more suitable during manual scenarios for tele-mentoring....
A user-interface device in the form of a stylus controlled by fingers for pointing in 3D space is more suitable for manual MIS, whereas a user-interface that can be moved and oriented easily in 3D spa...
Automatic surgical instrument segmentation is a crucial step for robotic-aided surgery. Encoder-decoder construction-based methods often directly fuse high-level and low-level features by skip connect...
The paper proposes to guide the network to select effective features for instrument segmentation. The network is named context-guided bidirectional attention network (CGBANet). The guidance connection...
The superiority of our CGBA-Net is verified by multiple instrument segmentation on two publicly available datasets of different surgical scenarios, including an endoscopic vision dataset (EndoVis 2018...
The proposed CGBA-Net increased the accuracy of multiple instruments segmentation, which accurately classifies and segments the instruments. The proposed modules effectively provided instrument-relate...
Mutual interference between the instruments and the lens is inevitable because lenses and instruments used in the surgical field are inserted through a small incision. This problem has seriously affec...
The author used a self-developed single incision sealing device, the hard material operation panel supports the lens and equipment so that one can expose the operation field from any angle. The panel ...
The new approach guarantees the safety of the operation, so the indications for a single-port operation will be promoted....
The author presents a method that reduces the difficulty of single-port laparoscopic surgery and a more practical technical solution for the use of surgical instruments during a difficult single-port ...
Automatic image segmentation of surgical instruments is a fundamental task in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, which greatly improves the context awareness of surgeons during the operation. ...
A novel feature extraction backbone is built, which could extract both local features through the convolutional neural network branch and global representations through the Swin-Transformer branch. Mo...
The proposed method is evaluated on the dataset of MICCAI 2017 EndoVis Challenge with three segmentation tasks and shows state-of-the-art performance with an mIoU of 0.5873 in type segmentation and 0....
The promising results demonstrate that our method can effectively extract global representations as well as local features in the segmentation of surgical instruments and improve the accuracy of segme...
Medical simulators are a modern-day technology that allow clinicians to acquire the skills and knowledge needed to perform complex surgical procedures. Validating these simulators is crucial prior to ...
This study developed and validated a surgical instrument motion measurement system for skill evaluation during practical laparoscopic surgery training. Owing to the various advantages of laparoscopic ...
