...Bruno-Pier Busque; Louis-Philippe Lebel; Yves Collin; Jean-Sébastien Plante Although laparoscopy has revolutionized modern medicine, its training remains long and complex due to reduced haptic feedback and loss of depth perception. Training also poses an ethical challenge when performed on living...

... improve the performance of the device, skilled endoscopists tested and validated the device using a colonoscopy training model. The colonoscopy training model is comprised of a configurable rubber colon, a human torso, a display, and sensing part. It measures the forces caused by the distal tip...

...JungHun Choi; Ravindra Kale 15 06 2011 15 06 2011 biomedical education biomedical optical imaging cancer data acquisition endoscopes training Colorectal cancer is one of the commonly occurring types of cancer and individuals above 50 years of age are considered...

... motion, and degraded sense of touch inherent in MIS result in new perceptual-motor relationships, which are unfamiliar to the surgeon and require training to overcome. Current training methods do not adequately address the needs of surgeons interested in acquiring these skills. Although a significant...

.... Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to design, develop, and test a portable and automated postural perturbation system (PAPPS) that can be used to measure and train postural reactions during sitting, standing, and treadmill walking. The core component of the PAPPS was a linear actuator...