Surgical phase modelling in minimal invasive surgery.

Frédérique MeeuwsenF van LuynM D BlikkendaalF W JansenJ J van den Dobbelsteen

Published in: Surgical endoscopy (2018)

This study demonstrates an intra-operative approach to recognise surgical phases in 40 laparoscopic hysterectomy cases based on instrument usage data. The model is capable of automatic detection of surgical phases for generation of a solid prediction of the surgical end-time.

Keyphrases

minimally invasive
machine learning
deep learning
big data
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