ArthroPhase: a novel dataset and method for phase recognition in arthroscopic video
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Summary
This summary is machine-generated.This study introduces a new dataset and transformer model for recognizing surgical phases in arthroscopic Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) reconstruction. The model achieves high accuracy, aiding surgical training and efficiency.
Area Of Science
- Computer Vision
- Medical Imaging
- Orthopedic Surgery
Background
- Surgical phase recognition is crucial for arthroscopic procedures like Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) reconstruction.
- Existing methods face challenges due to limited field of view, occlusions, and visual distortions in arthroscopy.
Purpose Of The Study
- To develop a novel transformer-based model for accurate surgical phase recognition in arthroscopic procedures.
- To establish a benchmark for arthroscopic surgical phase recognition using a new dataset.
Main Methods
- Developed the ACL27 dataset with 27 labeled arthroscopic ACL reconstruction videos.
- Employed a transformer-based architecture with ResNet-50 for spatio-temporal feature extraction.
- Introduced a Surgical Progress Index (SPI) to quantify surgery progression.
Main Results
- Achieved 72.9% accuracy on the ACL27 dataset and 92.4% on the Cholec80 dataset.
- SPI demonstrated low error rates (10.6% on ACL27, 9.8% on Cholec80) for reliable surgery progression estimation.
- Performance comparable to state-of-the-art methods on the Cholec80 dataset.
Conclusions
- The proposed transformer model and dataset significantly advance arthroscopic surgical phase recognition.
- The model shows effectiveness and generalizability, with potential to enhance surgical training and efficiency.
- Publicly available dataset and code will foster future research in orthopedic surgery.

