A study published in International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery tested private 5G as hospital infrastructure for surgical assistance services that need live feedback.
The authors deployed five virtualized services for medical imaging, speech and device-data processing on a private 5G-connected edge-computing cluster. They report that the setup supported multiple video streams with bounded low latency and that a standard HD (720p) endoscopic service stayed below 290 milliseconds from capture to display.
"This study investigates a wireless infrastructure based on private 5G networking capable of provisioning scalable computational resources, exemplified by surgical assistance services (SAS) requiring live feedback."
"A 720p end-to-end endoscopic SAS, covering local image capture, remote segmentation, and return, consistently achieves capture-to-display latencies below 290 ms."
"Compared to Wi-Fi, private 5G requires greater infrastructure effort but provides dedicated spectrum with reduced interference susceptibility, enhanced security, and temporal determinism, properties that may be of particular relevance for surgical navigation and robotic systems."
Toward ubiquitous surgical assistance services via private 5G infrastructure
Schollmaier, Hohlmann, Wickel, Nguyen, Yilmaz, Kovler International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery Journal Level 1ⓘ
