The DOI matches its Crossref record; 14 of the 14 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
The impact of latency on surgical precision and task completion during robotic-assisted remote telepresence surgery
Open accessAbstract
OBJECTIVE: It has been suggested that robotic-assisted remote telepresence surgery with a signal transmission latency of greater than 300 ms may not be possible. METHODS: We evaluated the impact of four different latencies of up to 500 ms on task completion and error rate in five surgeons after completion of three different surgical tasks. RESULTS: The surgeons were able to complete all tasks with a latency of 500 ms. However, higher latency was associated with higher error rates and task completion time (TCT). There were significant variations between surgeons and different tasks. CONCLUSION: Surgeons are able to complete tasks with a signal transmission latency of up to 500 ms. The clinical impact of slower TCT and increased error rates encountered at higher latency needs to be established.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
The telemedicine study concluded that latency up to 0.5 seconds will still allow surgeons to perform tasks, but task completion time and number of errors increase as higher latency is introduced.
“Their conclusion was that latency up to 0.5 seconds will still allow surgeons to perform tasks; however, the task completion time and number of errors goes up as higher latency is introduced.”
From Quantifying operational constraints of low-latency telerobotics for planetary surface operations (2018) · cites this paper as [21]
Studies on video quality concluded that there is a threshold value for video quality to maintain operability.
“While the results from each of the studies differ slightly, ultimately the studies all concluded that there is a threshold value for video quality to maintain operability.”
From Quantifying operational constraints of low-latency telerobotics for planetary surface operations (2018) · cites this paper as [21]
The Creation of latency section mentions minor video-signal degradation but does not test video quality or identify a quality threshold for operability. The Discussion addresses transmission latency instead, finding no obvious cut-off at 300 ms for completing the tested tasks. Searches for a video-quality threshold found no supporting passage in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.76)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measured
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Robotic surgery, telerobotic surgery, telepresence, and telementoring
Ballantyne, G. H. (2002) · Surgical Endoscopy · doi:10.1007/s00464-001-8283-7 · Cited by 650
Transcontinental Robot-Assisted Remote Telesurgery: Feasibility and Potential Applications
Marescaux, J., Leroy, J., Rubino, F., Smith, M. L., Vix, M., Simone, M. D., & Mutter, D. (2002) · Annals of Surgery · doi:10.1097/00000658-200204000-00005 · Cited by 611
Computer-enhanced robotic telesurgery
Melvin, W. S., NEEDLEMAN, B. J., Krause, K. R., et al. (2002) · Surgical Endoscopy · doi:10.1007/s00464-001-8192-9 · Cited by 178
Telerobotic assisted laparoscopicsurgery: Initial laboratory and clinical experience
Kavoussi, L. R., Moore, R. G., Partin, A. W., et al. (1994) · Urology · doi:10.1016/s0090-4295(94)80003-0 · Cited by 148
Effect of Time Delay on Surgical Performance During Telesurgical Manipulation
FABRLZIO, M. D., LEE, B. R., Chan, D. Y. S., et al. (2000) · Journal of Endourology · doi:10.1089/end.2000.14.133 · Cited by 121
Robot-assisted surgical systems: a new era in laparoscopic surgery
Ruurda, J. P. H., van Vroonhoven, T. J. M. V., & Broeders, I. (2002) · Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England · doi:10.1308/003588402320439621 · Cited by 109
Robotic Gastrointestinal Surgery: Early Experience and System Description
Talamini, M. A., Campbell, K. A., & Stanfield, C. (2002) · Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques · doi:10.1089/109264202760267970 · Cited by 104
Link, R. E., Schulam, P. G., & Kavoussi, L. R. (2001) · Urologic Clinics of North America · doi:10.1016/s0094-0143(01)80020-3 · Cited by 63
Thompson, J. M., Ottensmeyer, M. P., & Sheridan, T. B. (1999) · Telemedicine Journal · doi:10.1089/107830299312096 · Cited by 63
INDICATIONS FOR PELVIC LYMPHADENECTOMY IN PROSTATE CANCER
Link, R. E., & Morton, R. A. (2001) · Urologic Clinics of North America · doi:10.1016/s0094-0143(05)70157-9 · Cited by 61
Robot-assisted laparoscopic intestinal anastomosis
Ruurda, J. P. H., & Broeders, I. A. M. J. (2003) · Surgical Endoscopy · doi:10.1007/s00464-002-9016-2 · Cited by 48
Execution of robot‐assisted biopsies within the clinical context
Rovetta, A., & Sala, R. (1995) · Journal of Image Guided Surgery · doi:10.1002/(sici)1522-712x(1995)1:5 · Cited by 37
Telerobotics brings surgical skills to remote communities
Pirisi, A. (2003) · The Lancet · doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(03)13449-6 · Cited by 11
Execution of Robot-Assisted Biopsies within the Clinical Context
Rovetta, A., & Sala, R. (1995) · Computer Aided Surgery · doi:10.3109/10929089509106334 · Cited by 3
Flagged first, then by citations
Research works printed but not linked: 1
- Anvari M, 2004, Surg Endosc, 18
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Quantifying operational constraints of low-latency telerobotics for planetary surface operations
Mellinkoff, B. J., Spydell, M. M., Bailey, W., & Burns, J. O. (2018) · 2018 IEEE Aerospace Conference · doi:10.1109/aero.2018.8396673 · Cited by 7
“An experiment conducted by the Centre of Minimal Access Surgery [21] looked at the impact of varying latency on teleoperated surgical tasks.”
Method
Metadata
- Authors
- Anvari, M., Broderick, T., Stein, H., Chapman, T., Ghodoussi, M., Birch, D. W., Mckinley, C., Trudeau, P., Dutta, S., & Goldsmith, C. H.
- Affiliations
- McMaster University (CA)
- Bell (Canada) (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Anvari, Mehran
- Venue
- Computer Aided Surgery
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2005-01
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 93-99
- ISSN
- 1092-9088 (ISSN-L)
- 1097-0150
- OpenAlex
- W2163880280
- Semantic Scholar
- 4f76c7e787e499255079db748a67da8c0e3f6549
- Cited by
- 149
- References
- 14
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 33 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 9.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Computer Aided Surgery (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Teleoperation and Haptic Systems
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Surgical Simulation and Training
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Keywords
- telepresence surgery, robotic surgery, surgical precision, task completion time, telesurgery
- MeSH terms
- Clinical Competence, Humans, Robotics, Sensitivity and Specificity, Task Performance and Analysis, Time Factors, Single-Blind Method, Telemedicine, Medical Errors, Surgery, Computer-Assisted
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
