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. 2019 May 3;21(5):e11925. doi: 10.2196/11925

Table 5.

Use of gesture-based commercial off-the-shelf devices in surgery.

Use Studies
Manipulation of images in interventional radiology environments or in the operating room (N=42)

Image manipulation [5,13,14,17,19,26,27,30,52,54,56,58-64,67-69,74,76-95]
Education and training

Virtual or augmented reality for educational or interventional purposes (N=16) [75,94,96-109]

Training in endoscopy (bronchoscopy and colonoscopy; N=3) [110-112]
Robotic surgery (N=7)

Robotics in surgery and in surgical instrumentation [113-119]
Tracking of hand or instrument movements during open or minimally invasive surgery

Instrument tracking in MISa (N=7) [108,120-125]

Tracking of hand movements during MIS (N=2) [109,126]

Tracking of hand movements during open surgical knot tying (N=1) [127]
Simulation for skills learning in MIS (N=4)

Simulation for motor skills learning in MIS [66,108,120]

Using patient-specific 3-dimensional images during MIS in real patients or simulators, and presurgical warm-up [52,66,70,108]
Other uses


Ethnographic studies (N=5) [59,65,78,83,114]

Measurement of breast implant volumes and measurement of distances on the breast surface (N=3) [71-73]

Manipulation of the operating table and lights (N=4) [128-130]

aMIS: minimally invasive surgery.