A Design Of Automated Surgical Illumination System

Kee, Soek Fuan (2018) A Design Of Automated Surgical Illumination System. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Surgical lights which consists of a single or multiple-light head assembly attached to a suspension arm are designed to illuminate surgical site. However, it was found out that the need of nurse or surgeon to move the surgical light manually might obstruct the surgical flow and cause contamination of instruments. Thus, the project is aimed to design an illumination system that will automatically track the movement of the hand of surgeon with specific color of. Yet, the project will mainly focus on the automation movement of light with the tracking of hand glove, not related to the specifications of light, operating table, operating room condition, design of suspension arm and others surgical procedure. An algorithm that could track the surgeon’s hand movement is be designed using image processing. The best algorithm flow is determined to perform the color tracking process. The project will also include designing a surgical light which consists of a single light head attached with camera to illuminate surgical site that will not cast any shadows and provide high light intensity. Raspberry Pi is used with the Pi Camera to track the movement of the hand of surgeon through the program called OpenCV and the programming language, Python. At the end of the project, the algorithm of color object tracking is executed and the prototype of automation surgical illumination system will be produced.

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