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ArticleInternational journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery2022

Using open surgery simulation kinematic data for tool and gesture recognition.

Adam Goldbraikh, Tomer Volk, Carla M Pugh, Shlomi Laufer

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Article in International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. MiDAS: A Multimodal Data Acquisition System and Dataset for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery.The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS · 2026
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  2. Artificial Intelligence in Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery Education: Applications, Ethics, and Future Perspectives.Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Global research & reviews · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Adam GoldbraikhApplied Mathematics Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 3200003, Haifa, Israel. sgoadam@campus.technion.ac.il.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0800-5936
Tomer VolkFaculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 3200003, Haifa, Israel.
Carla M PughDepartment of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 610101, USA.
Shlomi LauferFaculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 3200003, Haifa, Israel.
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology · ILStanford University · US

Funding

Quantifying the Metrics of Surgical Mastery: An Exploration in Data ScienceR01DK123445 · NIDDK · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI PUGH, CARLA M · 2020 to 2023
$2.6M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK123445
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe use of motion sensors is emerging as a means for measuring surgical performance. Motion sensors are typically used for calculating performance metrics and assessing skill. The aim of this study was to identify surgical gestures and tools used during an open surgery suturing simulation based on motion sensor data.

methodsTwenty-five participants performed a suturing task on a variable tissue simulator. Electromagnetic motion sensors were used to measure their performance. The current study compares GRU and LSTM networks, which are known to perform well on other kinematic datasets, as well as MS-TCN++, which was developed for video data and was adapted in this work for motion sensors data. Finally, we extended all architectures for multi-tasking.

resultsIn the gesture recognition task the MS-TCN++ has the highest performance with accuracy of [Formula: see text] and F1-Macro of [Formula: see text], edit distance of [Formula: see text] and F1@10 of [Formula: see text] In the tool usage recognition task for the right hand, MS-TCN++ performs the best in most metrics with an accuracy score of [Formula: see text], F1-Macro of [Formula: see text], F1@10 of [Formula: see text], and F1@25 of [Formula: see text]. The multi-task GRU performs best in all metrics in the left-hand case, with an accuracy of [Formula: see text], edit distance of [Formula: see text], F1-Macro of [Formula: see text], F1@10 of [Formula: see text], and F1@25 of [Formula: see text].

conclusionIn this study, using motion sensor data, we automatically identified the surgical gestures and the tools used during an open surgery suturing simulation. Our methods may be used for computing more detailed performance metrics and assisting in automatic workflow analysis. MS-TCN++ performed better in gesture recognition as well as right-hand tool recognition, while the multi-task GRU provided better results in the left-hand case. It should be noted that our multi-task GRU network is significantly smaller and has achieved competitive results in the rest of the tasks as well.

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GesturesSuturesBiomechanical PhenomenaHumansMotionMotion sensorSurgical gesture recognitionSurgical simulationTool identification

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