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HaiVision's MAKO-HD telepresence codec
transmits first live stereoscopic 3D high definition surgical
procedure using IP video
June 24, 2008
Source: HaiVision Systems
HaiVision Systems Inc. (Montreal, Canada),
the world's leading vendor of performance H.264 network video
codecs, announces that today at the annual meeting of the
Canadian Urology Association (CUA) in Edmonton, Canada, the
industry leading MAKO-HD video encoder/decoder technology
is being used to transmit live surgical stereoscopic 3D high
definition 1080i video from Intuitive Surgical's daVinci S
robotic surgical system.
Orchestrated by Capital Health's Centre for the Advancement
of Minimally Invasive Surgery and BEAM Regional Telehealth,
attendees at the CUA meeting at the Shaw Conference Center
are witnessing a comparison between robotic and traditional
approaches to a urology procedure (radical prostatectomy).
In this unique event, both traditional and robotic surgeries
are being performed simultaneously within advanced Stryker
equipped operating rooms at the hospital and are being broadcast
live to the conference center for comparative purposes.
The conference center is 2 kilometers from where the surgeries
are taking place. In order for attendees to fully experience
the 3D technology employed by the surgical robot, the two
high definition sources from the surgical robot (necessary
for the 3D effect) are being transmitted over a high speed
network using HaiVision's MAKO-HD codec technology. Attendees
are viewing the 3D surgery using polarized glasses and Lightspeed
Design, Inc's DepthQ stereoscopic processing and systems integration
technology.
"The stereo high definition video that we are receiving
at the conference center is stunning", states Gayle Burnett,
Regional Director for Capital Health's Centre for the Advancement
of Minimally Invasive Surgery. "Most important for the
effort was to retain synchronization between the video streams
so that the stereo effect is maintained. HaiVision's technology
accomplishes this absolutely and with imperceptible latency."
HaiVision has a long history of enabling remote viewing of
medical video, as HaiVision codecs were first used for the
transmission of standard definition stereo video from the
daVinci system for live telerobotic surgery demonstrations
at the American Telemedicine Associate conference in 2005.
HaiVision's newest codec, the MAKO-HD, is ideal for medical
applications, supporting the highest resolution and the lowest
latency (70 milliseconds) available with the latest H.264
video compression technology. HaiVision has as well introduced
SHARE-HD, a network video recording system designed for medical
applications capable of recording and replaying multiple synchronous
high definition video streams.
The MAKO-HD is the high definition video encoder/decoder available
within the hai1000 network video system and supports up to
1080p resolution. The hai1000 multi-stream system, integrated
within the systems of HaiVision's OEM clients, is the world's
leading codec for telepresence.
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