Surgical motion characterization in simulated needle insertion procedures

Matthew S. Holden; Tamas Ungi; Derek Sargent; Robert C. McGraw; Gabor Fichtinger

doi:10.1117/12.911003

17 February 2012 Surgical motion characterization in simulated needle insertion procedures

Matthew S. Holden, Tamas Ungi, Derek Sargent, Robert C. McGraw, Gabor Fichtinger

Proceedings Volume 8316, Medical Imaging 2012: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling; 83160W (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.911003
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

PURPOSE: Evaluation of surgical performance in image-guided needle insertions is of emerging interest, to both promote patient safety and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of training. The purpose of this study was to determine if a Markov model-based algorithm can more accurately segment a needle-based surgical procedure into its five constituent tasks than a simple threshold-based algorithm. METHODS: Simulated needle trajectories were generated with known ground truth segmentation by a synthetic procedural data generator, with random noise added to each degree of freedom of motion. The respective learning algorithms were trained, and then tested on different procedures to determine task segmentation accuracy. In the threshold-based algorithm, a change in tasks was detected when the needle crossed a position/velocity threshold. In the Markov model-based algorithm, task segmentation was performed by identifying the sequence of Markov models most likely to have produced the series of observations. RESULTS: For amplitudes of translational noise greater than 0.01mm, the Markov model-based algorithm was significantly more accurate in task segmentation than the threshold-based algorithm (82.3% vs. 49.9%, p<0.001 for amplitude 10.0mm). For amplitudes less than 0.01mm, the two algorithms produced insignificantly different results. CONCLUSION: Task segmentation of simulated needle insertion procedures was improved by using a Markov model-based algorithm as opposed to a threshold-based algorithm for procedures involving translational noise.

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Matthew S. Holden, Tamas Ungi, Derek Sargent, Robert C. McGraw, and Gabor Fichtinger "Surgical motion characterization in simulated needle insertion procedures", Proc. SPIE 8316, Medical Imaging 2012: Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling, 83160W (17 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.911003

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