Voice Command Based Remote Surgery Simulator

Abstract

Health has always been a vital concern of any society. Therefore, various countries invest significantly in the heath sector to acquire state of the art health infrastructure. It may be noted that not all the countries are economically strong to meet the growing need of health services. Moreover, it is not possible that all countries have same medical experts available. In such case, patients have sometimes been shifted to other countries for treatments. This is an expensive process, whereas if the desired equipment is available locally, then it is possible to carryout treatment. The problem with such an arrangement is that the expertise of medical doctors may sometimes not available locally, whereas they need to be the part of treatment or surgery. The use of advanced technologies can help in achieving such goal. This research proposed and developed a simulator that can take voice commands to present visualized simulation for the guidance of the on-site surgeon to conduct surgery. The surgery is supposed to be done in supervision of expert surgeon connected remotely and the instruction passed by remote surgeon is translated and simulated for better results in surgery. The proposed simulator is devised and tested on four different types of surgeries and the results are very promising in achieving the desired goals.