Haptic tele-surgery simulation

In the last decades, with the rapid development of electronic and computer technologies, advanced medical equipment has been introduced to facilitate medical diagnosis and treatment. Yet, medical education and training approaches have not benefited much from these developments. As the kinds of surgical operations increase, specialized procedures become more and more sophisticated. Thus, the medical specialists have to be well-trained before they perform surgery on real human beings. The purpose of this research is to develop a collaborative haptic simulation architecture for tracheotomy surgery and its training program. In this simulation, there will be two scenarios. In the first, two doctors operate collaboratively from different locations. In the second scenario, the trainer coaches the trainee on how to perform the surgery successfully in a tele-mentoring manner.