Dual-Screen Remote Proctoring for Synchronized Stent Guidance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current proctoring systems in medical robotics lack the capability to provide real-time, comprehensive feedback on both visual and hemodynamic data during procedures, limiting the effectiveness of remote guidance and training for medical specialists.
Innovation Solution
A proctoring system that integrates a communication device with a remote station, enabling simultaneous display of fluoroscopy imagery and patient hemodynamics, allowing specialists to provide timely guidance through video and audio communication, with features like latency indicators to ensure synchronized instructions during critical procedures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a remote station displays only single information (either fluoroscopy imagery or hemodynamic data), then the display complexity is low, but the comprehensiveness of real-time feedback is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The display is segmented into multiple independent fields: a first screen field displays fluoroscopy imagery while a second screen field displays hemodynamic data. Each field can be independently configured and optimized, allowing comprehensive information presentation without overwhelming complexity in a single display area.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from a single-dimensional display to a multi-dimensional display architecture by introducing additional screen fields. This dimensional expansion allows simultaneous presentation of diverse data types (visual imagery and numerical hemodynamic parameters) without compromising either comprehensiveness or usability.
2Reliability
If the remote station integrates multiple data streams (fluoroscopy and hemodynamics), then real-time comprehensive feedback is achieved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple data streams are segmented into separate display fields rather than being integrated into a single complex interface. The fluoroscopy imagery occupies one screen field while hemodynamic data occupies another, allowing each data type to be processed and displayed independently, thereby maintaining system reliability without proportionally increasing operational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The visual display system is designed with multi-functionality to handle diverse data types through a unified architecture. The same display infrastructure supports both fluoroscopy imagery and hemodynamic data presentation, reducing the need for separate specialized systems and thereby limiting the increase in overall system complexity.
3Loss of information
If the proctoring system provides detailed real-time data, then the quality of remote proctoring improves, but the bandwidth and communication requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
Communication data streams are segmented into distinct categories (fluoroscopy video data and hemodynamic parameter data) that can be transmitted through different channels or with different compression levels. This segmentation allows optimization of bandwidth usage for each data type while maintaining the quality and comprehensiveness of the overall proctoring information.
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AI summary
A proctoring system that includes a communication device coupled to a remote station. The remote station has a visual display that displays first information relating to an action that causes an effect on an object, and simultaneously displays second information relating to the effect on the object. The remote station includes at least one input device that allows a communication to be transmitted by an operator to the communication device. By way of example, during the deployment of a heart stent, a specialist doctor may remotely view real-time fluoroscopy imagery and patient hemodynamics. The specialist can remotely proctor medical personnel on the proper orientation and timing requirements for installing the stent.