Robotic Assistance for Intraocular Microsurgery: Challenges and Perspectives
Intraocular surgery, one of the most challenging discipline of microsurgery, requires sensory and motor skills at the limits of human physiological capabilities combined with tremendously difficult requirements for accuracy and steadiness. Nowadays, robotics combined with advanced imaging has opened...
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Published in | Proceedings of the IEEE Vol. 110; no. 7; pp. 893 - 908 |
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Main Authors | , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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United States
IEEE
01.07.2022
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) |
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Summary: | Intraocular surgery, one of the most challenging discipline of microsurgery, requires sensory and motor skills at the limits of human physiological capabilities combined with tremendously difficult requirements for accuracy and steadiness. Nowadays, robotics combined with advanced imaging has opened conspicuous and significant directions in advancing the field of intraocular microsurgery. Having patient treatment with greater safety and efficiency as the final goal, similar to other medical applications, robotics has a real potential to fundamentally change microsurgery by combining human strengths with computer and sensor-based technology in an information-driven environment. Still in its early stages, robotic assistance for intraocular microsurgery has been accepted with precaution in the operating room and successfully tested in a limited number of clinical trials. However, due to its demonstrated capabilities including hand tremor reduction, haptic feedback, steadiness, enhanced dexterity, micrometer-scale accuracy, and others, microsurgery robotics has evolved as a very promising trend in advancing retinal surgery. This article will analyze the advances in retinal robotic microsurgery, its current drawbacks and limitations, as well as the possible new directions to expand retinal microsurgery to techniques currently beyond human boundaries or infeasible without robotics. |
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ISSN: | 0018-9219 1558-2256 |
DOI: | 10.1109/JPROC.2022.3169466 |