Title
Learning laparoscopic surgery by imitation using robot trainer
Abstract
Laparoscopic surgery requires rigorous training in order to overcome physical, spatial and visual constraints. We are developing a laparoscopic robot trainer. The robot trainer can learn the motion of the master surgeon when he is performing a virtual surgery, and drive the surgical tool by mimicking the learnt trajectory during training. This paper reports our investigation on robot learning using learning by imitation for surgical training. The feasibility of implementing this innovative learning method is demonstrated with recent results on the robot trainer, and experiments involving our laparoscopic surgery trainer box and computer vision system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181759
ROBIO
Keywords
Field
DocType
medical robotics,virtual surgery,robot learning,laparoscopic robot trainer,laparoscopic surgery,learning by example,computer vision system,computer vision,innovative learning,learning by imitation,surgery,robot kinematics,trajectory
Robot learning,Laparoscopic surgery,Trainer,Simulation,Robot kinematics,Control engineering,Human–computer interaction,Imitation,Learning by example,Engineering,Robot,Surgical training
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4577-2136-6
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chee-Kong Chui124538.34
Chin-Boon Chng2254.49
Tao Yang374.09
Rong Wen4334.73
Weimin Huang5107496.95
Jimmy Liu600.68
Yi Su792.41
Stephen Chang8254.42