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Satoru Okada¹, Junichi Shimada, Kazuhiro Ito

¹Division of Chest Surgery, Department of Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, 465 Kajii-cho, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto , 602-8566, Japan.

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A new touch panel navigation (TPN) system for endoscopic surgery was developed. While TPN offers precise cauterization control, traditional methods were faster and showed greater improvement in this in vitro study.

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Area of Science:

Surgical Technology
Robotics in Medicine
Minimally Invasive Surgery

Background:

Endoscopic surgery benefits from enhanced navigation, particularly for cauterization procedures.
Touch panel navigation (TPN) systems offer potential for improved control in surgical settings.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and evaluate the in vitro performance of a novel touch panel navigation (TPN) system for endoscopic surgery.
To assess the TPN system's efficacy in controlling argon plasma coagulation (APC) during surgical tasks.

Main Methods:

The TPN system utilized finger trajectories on a touch panel to guide an APC device attached to a robot arm.
Novice and expert surgeons performed cauterization of shapes (squares, circles, arcs) using both TPN and conventional endoscopic methods.
Performance metrics included offset, task completion time, and distance from the target, analyzed on thermal paper recordings.

Main Results:

TPN showed comparable accuracy (offset: 5.5 mm for squares, 5.0 mm for circles) to endoscopic methods, with no significant differences between novice and expert surgeons.
Task completion time was longer with TPN compared to conventional endoscopy for both shapes.
While endoscopic procedures showed significant improvement over time, TPN performance did not improve, suggesting a learning curve or system limitation.

Conclusions:

The TPN system facilitates continuous 3D device positioning and depth perception for precise cauterization in endoscopic surgery.
Despite longer task times and lack of improvement in this study, the TPN technology shows promise for procedures demanding exact cauterization control.