Impact of the suboptimal communication network environment on telerobotic surgery performance and surgeon fatigue

• Harue Akasaka ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Harue Akasaka, Kenichi Hakamada, Hajime Morohashi

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1843-3093

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• Kenichi Hakamada ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Harue Akasaka, Kenichi Hakamada, Hajime Morohashi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hakamada@hirosaki-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan, Committee for Promotion of Remote Surgery Implementation, Japan Surgical Society, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6513-1202

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• Hajime Morohashi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Harue Akasaka, Kenichi Hakamada, Hajime Morohashi

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Hirosaki University Graduate School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan, Committee for Promotion of Remote Surgery Implementation, Japan Surgical Society, Tokyo, Japan

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• Takahiro Kanno ,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Committee for Promotion of Remote Surgery Implementation, Japan Surgical Society, Tokyo, Japan, RIVERFIELD Inc., Tokyo, Japan

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• Kenji Kawashima ,

  Roles Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Committee for Promotion of Remote Surgery Implementation, Japan Surgical Society, Tokyo, Japan, RIVERFIELD Inc., Tokyo, Japan, Department of Information Physics and Computing School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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• Yuma Ebihara ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Committee for Promotion of Remote Surgery Implementation, Japan Surgical Society, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Gastroenterological Surgery II, Hokkaido University Faculty of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Eiji Oki ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Committee for Promotion of Remote Surgery Implementation, Japan Surgical Society, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Surgery and Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9763-9366

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• Satoshi Hirano ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Committee for Promotion of Remote Surgery Implementation, Japan Surgical Society, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Gastroenterological Surgery II, Hokkaido University Faculty of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Masaki Mori

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Committee for Promotion of Remote Surgery Implementation, Japan Surgical Society, Tokyo, Japan, Tokai University School of Medicine, Isehara, Japan

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