333 General discussion, conclusions, and future perspectives gating the possibility to automatically assess instrument movements in pre-recorded videos of RARP patients. This type of analysis was used to investigate if the movements of the surgical instrument could predict the functional outcome of the surgery. The software can track instrument movements in laparoscopic surgery without requiring extra equipment.26 The results presented in this thesis show this software cannot be used in RAS. The speed of the surgical instruments, tissue overlapping the instrument and the fact that the instrument has flexible joints, made it impossible to track the instrument movements in pre-recorded videos.
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