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Guilherme Cesar Soares Ruppert1, Leonardo Oliveira Reis, Paulo Henrique Junqueira Amorim

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Technology
  • Surgical Navigation
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Background:

  • Operating room (OR) environments require sterile, touchless solutions for instrument control.
  • Traditional interfaces pose contamination risks in sterile surgical settings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a cost-effective, touchless hand gesture recognition system for intraoperative surgical navigation.
  • To enable surgeons to control medical imaging software without physical contact.

Main Methods:

  • Implementation of a hand tracking and gesture recognition system using the Kinect device and open-source libraries.
  • Integration with InVesalius software for 3D medical image reconstruction and navigation.
  • Testing the system in a clinical setting during nephron-sparing surgeries.

Main Results:

  • Successful intraoperative navigation of computed tomography data using hand gestures in 4 tumor enucleations.
  • Accurate identification of endorenal tumors without real-time ultrasound in 3 out of 4 cases.
  • No intraoperative or postoperative complications reported, with all tumors confirmed as low-grade renal cell carcinoma.

Conclusions:

  • A novel, low-cost touchless interface utilizing Kinect technology provides efficient and accurate control of surgical software (InVesalius).
  • This system offers a viable alternative to traditional interfaces, reducing contamination risks in the OR.
  • Potential applications extend beyond surgery to data visualization, augmented reality, accessibility, and robotics.