Optimizing intraoperative AI: evaluation of YOLOv8 for real-time recognition of robotic and laparoscopic instruments
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.The YOLOv8 model accurately identifies robotic and laparoscopic surgical instruments for intraoperative artificial intelligence (AI). It achieves high precision and segmentation accuracy, showing promise for real-time clinical applications.
Area Of Science
- Computer Vision
- Surgical Robotics
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Background
- Accurate surgical instrument recognition is crucial for advancing intraoperative artificial intelligence (AI).
- Existing systems require robust models for real-time identification in complex surgical environments.
Purpose Of The Study
- To evaluate the YOLOv8 model's effectiveness in detecting, classifying, and segmenting robotic and laparoscopic surgical instruments.
- To assess the model's performance across various surgical instruments and contexts using a diverse dataset.
Main Methods
- Utilized a comprehensive dataset of over 7,400 frames and 17,175 annotations from multiple sources.
- Trained and tested the YOLOv8 model for instrument detection, classification, and segmentation tasks.
- Analyzed performance metrics including mean average precision (mAP), Dice score, and intersection over union (IoU).
Main Results
- YOLOv8 achieved a mAP of 0.77 for binary detection and 0.72 for multi-instrument classification.
- Optimal performance was noted with approximately 1300 instances per instrument in the training set.
- Demonstrated high segmentation accuracy with a mean Dice score of 0.91 and IoU of 0.86.
- Showed superior performance for robotic instruments compared to laparoscopic ones, attributed to dataset representation.
Conclusions
- YOLOv8 shows significant potential for precise and efficient surgical instrument recognition in robot-assisted surgeries.
- The model's rapid inference speed (1.12 ms/frame) supports its application in real-time clinical settings.
- Findings highlight the importance of dataset diversity and size for model performance in surgical AI.

