Surgical Audio Guidance SurAG: Extracting Non-Invasively Meaningful Guidance Information During Minimally Invasive Procedures

Abstract

In this work we summarize applications of a novel approach for providing complementary information for guiding medical interventional devices (MID) and that have been recently published by our research team. This approach consist of using an audio sensor located in the proximal end of the MID in order to extract meaningful information concerning the interaction between the tip of the instrument and the tissue. The approach was successfully evaluated with different setups and MIDs.