Chapter 146: Chapter 138: Perfect Surgery, Conquering Liang Ang and Liu Rong
Dean Xu Zhisheng was overjoyed. He had never expected the team from Fan City to be this incredible.
Dean Xu immediately called Dean Song. After a discussion, Dean Song also expressed his approval and his gratitude toward Wu Ting’s team.
After another preoperative consultation with Ms. Song Ying and signing the consent form, the surgery officially began.
With three professors and Wu Ting’s team present, Director Sha, who had originally been under immense pressure, was now able to relax. He joined Huo Yun and Dean Xu to observe from the side.
Looking at the reconfigured operating room, the professors couldn’t help but marvel.
When it came down to it, the most crucial aspect of this operating environment was the software. This primarily included Wu Ting’s core program and algorithms, as well as the large model version 2.0 trained by Ling Ling. As for the rest of the hardware, it could all be repurchased given a little time. Deployment only required Ling Ling, Yan Xi, and Jin Yan to collaborate on the final debugging.
After the surgery, Wu Ting’s team planned to take the core program and large model 2.0 with them, leaving the hardware behind in the operating room at Haijin Port.
Afterward, the Fan City First Hospital Research Center could simply repurchase and set up new equipment.
This way, it would be convenient to implement this assistive technology at both hospitals in the future.
The Laparoscopic Diagnosis and Treatment Technology Research Center was jointly established by the three platforms and City First Hospital. According to the framework agreement, the research center’s future Surgical Techniques would also be gradually implemented on the three platforms, so this was only a matter of time.
Of course, the patents for these technologies were still held by Wu Ting.
After all, in a collaboration like this, the three platforms wouldn’t just give their influence, reputation, and appeal to the City First Hospital Research Center for free.
According to the original plan, the idea was to rely on the technical support from the three platforms in the early stages to foster the development of the Fan City First Hospital Research Center.
They just hadn’t expected Wu Ting to be so brilliant, directly achieving a reverse technology transfer.
Overall, however, it was still a mutually beneficial, win-win situation.
Without the resources and influence of the three platforms, City First Hospital would not have been able to successfully establish the expert consensus on Daytime Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.
Under the new triple-modality method, Ms. Song Ying was given an injection of indocyanine green fluorescent dye ahead of time.
Once all preparations were complete, the fluorescence mode, ultrasound assistance, and the 3D imaging navigation platform application were all activated simultaneously.
On the large screen, the contrast-enhanced CT and MRI scans had already been sliced and processed. The large model 2.0’s computing power was also much faster than during the last surgery.
Soon, the application began to construct a 3D reconstruction of the liver, ducts, and tumor. Once complete, it combined this with the fluorescence and ultrasound modes to progressively begin augmented reality rendering!
Professors Shen Guofeng, Liang Ang, and Liu Rong stared intently at the screen. The 3D image displayed on it far exceeded their expectations.
"Yan Xi, begin coordinating the fluorescent laparoscopic exploration..."
"Ling Ling, adjust the 3D reconstruction model to the patient’s actual liver size..."
"Jin Yan, use ultrasound assistance to identify the liver contour, gallbladder, inferior vena cava, hepatic veins, and portal vein..."
"Professor Shen, once the anatomical markers appear, the 2.0 program will perform image matching and fusion to locate the liver cancer lesion. Afterward, it will coordinate with you as needed to switch between fluorescence mode, 3D imaging mode, and the actual surgical field!"
As the commander-in-chief of this assistive technology team, Wu Ting began coordinating the entire operation.
"Understood."
Shen Guofeng was surprised. In just a few days, the core program had been upgraded again, and the user experience had improved once more.
Professor Liang Ang and Dean Liu Rong were also astonished by the advanced nature of Wu Ting’s program.
To their disbelief, various anatomical markers appeared on the screen!
"Refreshing 3D image..."
"Locating lesion position..."
"Synchronizing 3D image with the surgical field in real-time..."
With the three doctors’ combined assistive technologies, the entire lesion was quickly located.
"Professors, the lesion has been located. The 3D image can be rotated at any time to match the surgical field’s perspective!"
At Wu Ting’s prompt, the final result appeared on the screen.
It was like a GPS navigation app that, after planning the best route, can show the distance to every traffic light, pinpoint where accidents have occurred, estimate the time of arrival, and provide all sorts of incredibly detailed information...
The three professors looked at the screen. On the patient’s right posterior lobe, caudate lobe, and other areas, every location was precisely marked. The size of the lesions was accurate down to the width of a hair.
Shen Guofeng took a deep breath and began to operate.
As he operated, the screen switched. The main display changed to the actual surgical field, while an auxiliary area showed the 3D image, which could be adjusted and resized.
Following the lesion indicators, with Professor Shen’s experience in liver resection, the procedure was naturally very smooth.
Professor Liang Ang and Dean Liu Rong suddenly realized that aside from some simple assistance, they could completely check their brains at the door and just enjoy the show.
In a conventional surgery of this type, they would need to carefully identify structures, consider the anatomical relationships between various tissues, plan the incision path, and worry about damaging other tissues, resecting too much, or not clearing the lesion completely.
But under Wu Ting’s triple-modality method, the blue-yellow-blue image in fluorescence mode was perfectly distinct. With their level of skill, how could they possibly make a mistake?
The ultrasound assistance, the real-time zooming of the 3D image, and the precise lesion targeting saved them an immense amount of mental and physical effort.
They didn’t need to spend much time on calculation and thought. They only had to control the force and angle of their hands, and with their understanding of the liver’s anatomy, mistakes were basically impossible.
Watching Shen Guofeng take the lead, the two professors were incredibly envious.
What shocked them even more was that as Professor Shen continued to resect, a reminder on the screen showed the lesion removal rate, accurate down to every last particle.
All three assistive technologies updated in real time and cross-validated one another, so the accuracy was on a completely different level compared to relying on a single, preoperative imaging source.
With the lead surgeon’s sharp eyes, experience, and skill as the "fourth force," the surgery proceeded as smoothly as a fish in water!
The total duration of the surgery was also greatly reduced.
As the surgery progressed, Professor Liang Ang and Dean Liu Rong were also reviewing the surgical resection plan they had made beforehand.
Upon comparison, they were astonished. The lesion diagnosis produced by the 3D assistive technology, through its artificial intelligence algorithms and large model 2.0, nearly matched the conclusions born from their own decades of top-tier expertise. The only difference was that Wu Ting’s team’s result was far more precise.
It was as if the three professors’ result was accurate to the tens place, while Wu Ting’s team’s was accurate to three decimal places!
A true dimensional takedown!
With the triple-modality assistance, Professor Shen completed the resection of all liver lesions with exhilarating ease, while the liver parenchyma was treated with microwave ablation.
Only then did the subsequent procedures return to traditional methods.
And only then did the three professors return to a familiar feeling.
Ms. Song Ying’s highly difficult radical resection for cirrhosis complicated by liver cancer was completed with unexpected perfection!
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