What is it about?
One of the technical benefits of heads-up surgery is the digital image-enhancement of the surgical view provided simultaneously during surgical procedures. In this study, we performed quantitative comparison of the surgical view between images with and without digital enhancement. The result shows how clearly and extremely the image-enhancement software changes the color and brightness of the surgical view, allowing the surgeon to find the condition of the tissues easily with much lower illumination.
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Why is it important?
Effect of digital-image enhancement during heads-up surgery has been discussed based on subjective impressions of the surgeons or observers. This article is the first to evaluate it quantitatively by measuring the color differences and comparing them between two conditions with and without enhancement. Readers will understand very clearly how heads-up surgery platform assists surgeons to obtain precise and bright image of the surgical view.
Perspectives
Heads-up surgery with digital-image enhancement is expected to lead to innovative surgical methods such as retinal vascular surgery which requires higher magnification and better resolution than has ever been provided by binocular observation through a microscope, as suggested by the results and photos shown in this article.
Dr. Kunihiko Akiyama
National Hospital Organization Tokyo Medical Center
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This page is a summary of: Quantitative evaluation of digital-image enhancement during heads-up surgery, Scientific Reports, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52492-z.
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