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Germain Forestier¹, Laurent Riffaud, Pierre Jannin

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This study introduces a novel method for predicting surgical phases using local activity context. The approach significantly improves accuracy and robustness in analyzing surgical procedures, outperforming single-activity methods.

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Medical Informatics
Surgical Technology

Background:

Analyzing surgical activities and phases is crucial for improving operating room efficiency and training.
Existing methods for surgical phase recognition often rely on single activity analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

To automatically predict high-level surgical phases from low-level surgical activity recordings.
To enhance surgical phase prediction by incorporating local activity context.
To evaluate the robustness and effectiveness of the proposed method.

Main Methods:

Utilized low-level recordings of surgeon activities.
Augmented a decision tree algorithm with local context awareness.
Employed a hierarchical clustering algorithm for data preprocessing.

Main Results:

Achieved an overall precision of 0.843 in detecting surgical phases across 51,489 activities from 22 lumbar disk herniation surgeries.
Demonstrated improved performance compared to methods analyzing single activities.
Confirmed the method's robustness against noise.

Conclusions:

Incorporating local context significantly improves surgical phase prediction accuracy.
The developed method is highly robust to noise in surgical activity data.
Clustering input data prior to prediction further enhances the accuracy of surgical phase recognition.