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Access Type
WSU Access
Date of Award
January 2022
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.S.
Department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
First Advisor
Abhilash Pandya
Abstract
Positioning a camera during laparoscopic and robotic procedures is challenging and essential for successful operations. During surgery, if the camera view is not optimal, surgery becomes more complex and potentially error-prone. To address this need, a voice interface to an autonomous camera system has been developed that can trigger behavioral changes and be more of a partner to the surgeon. Similarly to a human operator, the camera can take cues from the surgeon to help create optimized surgical camera views. It is also extensible and integrable with other intelligent surgical systems. A voice activation test on a limited set of practiced key phrases was performed using both online and offline voice recognition systems. The results show an on-average greater than 94% recognition accuracy for the online system and 86% accuracy for the offline system. However, the response time of the online system was greater than 1.5 s, whereas the local system was 0.6 s. This work is a step towards cooperative surgical robots that will effectively partner with human operators to enable more robust surgeries.
Recommended Citation
Elazzazi, Maysara, "A Natural Language Interface To The Da Vinci Surgical Robot" (2022). Wayne State University Theses. 858.
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_theses/858