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  • 1Health Robotics and Automation, Institute for Anthropomatics and Robotics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.

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This study presents a novel feature-based tracking method for robotic ear surgery, using a surgical microscope to detect patient and microscope movements. This approach achieves high precision without extra hardware or patient markers, improving surgical workflow.

Keywords:
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Area of Science:

  • Robotics in Medicine
  • Surgical Technology
  • Microsurgery

Background:

  • Robotic systems in inner ear surgery demand high precision and seamless integration into surgical workflows.
  • Surgical microscopes are standard tools, ideally positioned for integration with assistive robotic systems.
  • Current marker-based tracking methods for surgical registration are invasive and can obstruct the line of sight.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a non-invasive, feature-based tracking method for robotic surgical systems in otology.
  • To utilize the existing surgical microscope's imaging system for real-time registration of patient and microscope movements.
  • To eliminate the need for external markers or fiducials, thereby reducing invasiveness and preparation time.

Main Methods:

  • A feature-based tracking algorithm utilizing a two-dimensional RGB stream from a surgical microscope.
  • Detection of features in sequential images and computation of affine transformation using the Random Sample Consensus (RANSAC) algorithm.
  • Exploiting the near-rigid motion of the cochleostomy scene due to the bony surgical environment.

Main Results:

  • The proposed method achieves movement feedback precision up to 93.2 micrometers.
  • Demonstrated successful registration without additional hardware or patient-attached fiducials.
  • Identified an accumulative error in long-term tracking scenarios.

Conclusions:

  • Feature-based tracking using a surgical microscope's imaging stream is a viable, non-invasive alternative for robotic ear surgery registration.
  • This method enhances surgical workflow by avoiding external markers and complex setup.
  • Further research is needed to address cumulative errors in prolonged tracking.