Familiarity with Intelligent Surgical Navigation System and its Applications in Minimally Invasive Surgery

In recent years a new method, called minimal invasive surgery (MIS), has been welcomed. In addition to creating enormous development in the field of surgery, it has corrected defects and aggressive face of this field. MIS usually uses endoscopes and is done through small holes on the skin or through the body cavities, such as airways, digestive and etc. and has less injury and side effects for patients. The main problem of MIS in comparison to open surgeries is the lost of surgeon’s vision in finding the endoscope's position or other surgical instruments inside the body that needs more experience and increase probability of injury to critical tissues. To solve this problem, in recent years surgical navigation systems have been developed, and a kind of these systems was invented and used in Iran in 2011. The main task of a surgical navigation system is to estimate the position of the surgical instrument and how to move it inside the body, and showing this data on the pre-operative images, which were taken from the patients. Experiments show that surgical navigation systems improve endoscopic surgery’s quality and reduce its complications in patients. Therefore these systems will be one of the important requirements of all operating rooms in future. So, due to the rapid advancement of this technology and medical community’s need and especially surgeon’s need to be familiar with surgical navigation system, we have carefully discussed. In this article various parts of these systems, their performance and some of their advantages in an endoscopic surgery has been carefully discussed and reviewed.