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Research Article

Remote mentoring in laparotomic and laparoscopic cancer surgery during Covid-19 pandemic: an experimental setup based on mixed reality

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Article: 1996923 | Received 29 Mar 2021, Accepted 19 Oct 2021, Published online: 29 Oct 2021

Figures & data

Figure 1. The adopted architecture for remote mentoring includes MR smartglasses, a digital imaging player, a DICOM database containing the medical images and a mixed reality toolkit

Figure 1. The adopted architecture for remote mentoring includes MR smartglasses, a digital imaging player, a DICOM database containing the medical images and a mixed reality toolkit

Figure 2. The surgeon while resizing a virtual image (left); the virtual images placed on the real scene (center); the surgeon while dragging a digital photo (right)

Figure 2. The surgeon while resizing a virtual image (left); the virtual images placed on the real scene (center); the surgeon while dragging a digital photo (right)

Figure 3. The surgeon performs a ‘drag and drop’ gesture during a gastrectomy to rotate and scale a virtual image

Figure 3. The surgeon performs a ‘drag and drop’ gesture during a gastrectomy to rotate and scale a virtual image

Table 1. Feedback from the five medical doctors under training: right adrenal carcinoma. For each reported item, the total score represents the average over the five trainees

Table 2. Feedback from the five medical doctors under training: gastrectomy

Table 3. Survey from the telementoring course attendees regarding all the 12 surgeries (scale from 1 to 10, low to high)