System identification and simulation of soft tissue force feedback in a spine surgical simulator.

Comput Biol Med

The Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Research (MBR) Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Orthopaedic Research Laboratory (ORL), Research Institute MUHC, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Electronic address:

Published: September 2023

Surgical simulators are being introduced as training modalities for surgeons. This paper aims to evaluate dynamic models used to convey force feedback from puncturing the soft tissue during a spine surgical simulation. The force feedback of the tissue is treated as a dynamic system. This is done by performing classical system identification across a bandwidth of frequencies on a tissue analogue and fitting that behaviour to dynamic viscoelastic models. The models that are tested are an inverted linear model, the Maxwell model, the Kelvin-Boltzmann (KB) model, and a higher-order blackbox (HO) model. Several error metrics such as percent variance accounted for (%VAF) are determined to measure solution accuracy. The force feedback models are programmed into a surgical simulator and tested with study participants who rated them based on how well the identified models match the behaviour of the rubber tissue analogue. The highest %VAF is 82.64% when the tissue is modelled as the HO model. Statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) are found between all model ratings from participants except between the HO model and the KB model. However, the HO model has the highest percentage (37.8%) of participants who rank its performance as the closest to the tissue analogue compared to the other force feedback models. The more accurately the dynamic behaviour resembles the tissue analogue, the higher the model was rated by study participants. This study highlights the importance of utilizing dynamic signals to generate dynamic models of soft tissue for spine surgical simulators.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.107267DOI Listing

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