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L Bouarfa1, J Dankelman

  • 1Department of Biomechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. loubna.bouarfa@gmail.com

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This study uses alignment techniques to create a standard surgical workflow from activity logs and automatically identify outlier procedures. This helps in analyzing variations and improving surgical practices.

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Area of Science:

  • Medical Informatics
  • Computational Biology
  • Surgical Workflow Analysis

Background:

  • Clinical activity logs contain valuable information for understanding surgical processes.
  • Automated analysis of surgical workflows can reveal deviations from best practices.
  • Identifying workflow outliers is crucial for quality improvement in surgery.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To establish a consensus workflow from multiple clinical activity logs.
  • To develop an automated method for detecting workflow outliers without expert input.
  • To validate the proposed methodology using Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy (LAPCHOL) data.

Main Methods:

  • Workflow mining using tree-guided multiple sequence alignment to derive consensus.
  • Global pair-wise sequence alignment (Needleman-Wunsch algorithm) for outlier detection.
  • Validation using activity logs derived from laparoscopic videos of LAPCHOL surgeries.

Main Results:

  • A generic consensus workflow for LAPCHOL was successfully derived from 26 surgical activity logs.
  • The derived consensus aligns with established best practices for LAPCHOL.
  • Automated detection of workflow outliers was demonstrated using the consensus and alignment techniques.

Conclusions:

  • Alignment techniques are effective for deriving consensus workflows and identifying outliers in clinical data.
  • Automated outlier detection in surgical logs is a key step towards analyzing causes and enhancing surgical quality.
  • This approach facilitates objective analysis and improvement of surgical procedures.