Utilization of artificial intelligence in minimally invasive right adrenalectomy: recognition of anatomical landmarks with deep learning
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.Artificial intelligence accurately identifies key anatomical structures during minimally invasive right adrenalectomy. This technology can enable real-time surgical navigation systems for improved patient outcomes.
Area Of Science
- Medical Imaging
- Surgical Technology
- Artificial Intelligence
Background
- Minimally invasive adrenalectomy is the standard for adrenal mass removal.
- Accurate identification of anatomical landmarks is crucial to minimize surgical complications.
- Artificial intelligence (AI) offers potential for real-time navigation systems in surgery.
Purpose Of The Study
- To develop deep learning models for recognizing critical anatomical structures during minimally invasive right adrenalectomy.
- To evaluate the performance of transformer and convolutional neural network (CNN)-based models in semantic segmentation of surgical வீடியோs.
Main Methods
- Intraoperative videos from 20 patients undergoing minimally invasive right adrenalectomy were analyzed.
- SwinUNETR (transformer) and MedNeXt (CNN) models were trained for semantic segmentation of the liver, inferior vena cava (IVC), and right adrenal gland.
- Models were trained using Dice-Cross Entropy and Dice-Focal Loss, with 5-fold cross-validation and strong data augmentation.
Main Results
- The SwinUNETR model achieved a mean Dice Similarity Coefficient (mDSC) of 78.37% with Dice-Cross Entropy Loss.
- The MedNeXt model achieved a mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) of 63.71%, outperforming SwinUNETR's 62.10% mIoU.
- Both models demonstrated high performance in pixelwise classification metrics like accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity.
Conclusions
- AI-based systems can effectively predict anatomical landmarks during minimally invasive right adrenalectomy.
- These AI tools hold promise for the future development of real-time intraoperative navigation systems.
- The study demonstrates the feasibility of using deep learning for enhanced surgical guidance.

