Computer vision in surgery: from potential to clinical value

P Mascagni, D Alapatt, L Sestini, MS Altieri… - npj Digital …, 2022 - nature.com
Hundreds of millions of operations are performed worldwide each year, and the rising
uptake in minimally invasive surgery has enabled fiber optic cameras and robots to become …

Analyzing surgical technique in diverse open surgical videos with multitask machine learning

ED Goodman, KK Patel, Y Zhang, W Locke… - JAMA …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Objective To overcome limitations of open surgery artificial intelligence (AI) models by
curating the largest collection of annotated videos and to leverage this AI-ready data set to …

Surgical tool detection in open surgery videos

R Fujii, R Hachiuma, H Kajita, H Saito - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Detecting surgical tools is an essential task for analyzing and evaluating surgical videos.
However, most studies focus on minimally invasive surgery (MIS) and cataract surgery …

Bounded future ms-tcn++ for surgical gesture recognition

A Goldbraikh, N Avisdris, CM Pugh, S Laufer - European Conference on …, 2022 - Springer
In recent times there is a growing development of video-based applications for surgical
purposes. Part of these applications can work offline after the end of the procedure, other …

Video-based formative and summative assessment of surgical tasks using deep learning

E Yanik, U Kruger, X Intes, R Rahul, S De - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
To ensure satisfactory clinical outcomes, surgical skill assessment must be objective, time-
efficient, and preferentially automated—none of which is currently achievable. Video-based …

Using open surgery simulation kinematic data for tool and gesture recognition

A Goldbraikh, T Volk, CM Pugh, S Laufer - International journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose The use of motion sensors is emerging as a means for measuring surgical
performance. Motion sensors are typically used for calculating performance metrics and …

Assessment of open surgery suturing skill: Simulator platform, force-based, and motion-based metrics

I Kil, JF Eidt, RE Groff, RB Singapogu - Frontiers in Medicine, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Objective This paper focuses on simulator-based assessment of open surgery suturing skill.
We introduce a new surgical simulator designed to collect synchronized force, motion, video …

MS-TCRNet: Multi-Stage Temporal Convolutional Recurrent Networks for action segmentation using sensor-augmented kinematics

A Goldbraikh, O Shubi, O Rubin, CM Pugh, S Laufer - Pattern Recognition, 2024 - Elsevier
Action segmentation is a challenging task in high-level process analysis, typically performed
on video or kinematic data obtained from various sensors. This work presents two …

Open surgery tool classification and hand utilization using a multi-camera system

K Basiev, A Goldbraikh, CM Pugh, S Laufer - International journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose The goal of this work is to use multi-camera video to classify open surgery tools as
well as identify which tool is held in each hand. Multi-camera systems help prevent …

Automatic performance evaluation of the intracorporeal suture exercise

L Halperin, G Sroka, I Zuckerman, S Laufer - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose This work uses deep learning algorithms to provide automated feedback on the
suture with intracorporeal knot exercise in the fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery …