Towards near real-time assessment of surgical skills: A comparison of feature extraction techniques.

Autor: Anh NX; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia., Nataraja RM; Department of Surgical Simulation, Monash Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia., Chauhan S; Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address: Sunita.Chauhan@monash.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Computer methods and programs in biomedicine [Comput Methods Programs Biomed] 2020 Apr; Vol. 187, pp. 105234. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Nov 19.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2019.105234
Abstrakt: Background and Objective: Surgical skill assessment aims to objectively evaluate and provide constructive feedback for trainee surgeons. Conventional methods require direct observation with assessment from surgical experts which are both unscalable and subjective. The recent involvement of surgical robotic systems in the operating room has facilitated the ability of automated evaluation of the expertise level of trainees for certain representative maneuvers by using machine learning for motion analysis. The features extraction technique plays a critical role in such an automated surgical skill assessment system.
Methods: We present a direct comparison of nine well-known feature extraction techniques which are statistical features, principal component analysis, discrete Fourier/Cosine transform, codebook, deep learning models and auto-encoder for automated surgical skills evaluation. Towards near real-time evaluation, we also investigate the effect of time interval on the classification accuracy and efficiency.
Results: We validate the study on the benchmark robotic surgical training JIGSAWS dataset. An accuracy of 95.63, 90.17 and 90.26% by the Principal Component Analysis and 96.84, 92.75 and 95.36% by the deep Convolutional Neural Network for suturing, knot tying and needle passing, respectively, highlighted the effectiveness of these two techniques in extracting the most discriminative features among different surgical skill levels.
Conclusions: This study contributes toward the development of an online automated and efficient surgical skills assessment technique.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest None.
(Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier B.V.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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