Background Availability of patient-specific image data, gathered from preoperatively
conducted studies, like computed tomography scans and magnetic resonance imaging …

Within an operating room, surgeons need to interact with a large amount of patient's medical
information and data. In order to avoid misunderstandings among the staff and protecting the …

Computer-assisted surgery has pervaded the operating room (OR). While display and
imaging technologies advance rapidly, keyboard and mouse are still the dominant input …

This paper presents a method to improve the navigation and manipulation of radiological
images through a sterile hand gesture recognition interface based on attentional contextual …

Today clinicians may access large medical datasets, but very few systems have been
designed to allow a practical and efficient exploration of data directly in critical medical …

Purpose In this article, we systematically examine the current state of research of systems
that focus on touchless human–computer interaction in operating rooms and interventional …

Interest in Gesture-based interaction in the operating room (OR) environment is rising. The
main advantage of introducing such an interface in the OR is that it enables direct interaction …

The use of doctor-computer interaction devices in the operation room (OR) requires new
modalities that support medical imaging manipulation while allowing doctors' hands to …

Introduction: In the modern day operating room the surgeon performs surgeries with the
support of different medical systems that showcase patient information, physiological data …

Background The increasingly pervasive presence of technology in the operating room raises
the need to study the interaction between the surgeon and computer system. A new …