Monitoring Tool Usage in Surgery Videos using Boosted Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks

With the emergence of imaging devices in the operating room, the automated analysis of videos recorded during the surgery is becoming a hot research topic. In particular, videos can be used to monitor the surgery, for instance by recognizing which surgical tools are being used at every moment. An immediate application of surgery monitoring is report generation. If automatic reports are available for many surgeries, then the automatic analysis of these reports can help optimize the surgical workflow or evaluate surgical skills.

Source: Medical Image Analysis - May 9, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Hassan Al Hajj, Mathieu Lamard, Pierre-Henri Conze, B éatrice Cochener, Gwenolé Quellec Source Type: research