June 2019
Intermediate to advanced
379 pages
12h 14m
English
book
Internet of Things in Biomedical Engineering
by Valentina Emilia Balas, Le Hoang Son, Sudan Jha, Manju Khari, Raghvendra Kumar
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Chapter 4
Image-Guided Surgery Through Internet of Things
S. Vijayalakshmi; Savita SCSE, Galgotias University, Greater Noida, India
Abstract
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of devices connected to each other via the Internet, which makes the devices “smart.” Today, the IoT plays a very important role in healthcare to improve the quality of the healthcare system. Various diseases require surgery for treatment. Image-guided surgery (IGS) is a surgical process in which surgeons use an invasive tracked instrument to make a preoperative image that helps in treatment of specific diseases. IGS helps the surgeons obtain better results during the surgical process. For a demanding surgery, the main steps are: obtaining different images of the ...