Acquisition of Process Descriptions from Surgical Interventions

Poster Session:Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery

“…Due to the lack of standardized implantation plans, only human actors or proprietary systems of the same vendor are able to interpret the information. Unfortunately, the majority of those devices are stand-alone systems, not or only to a limited extent able to exchange data with other systems in the OR or in the hospital [1]. To provide data access for the devices in the OR, standardized interfaces for communication of implantation plans are to be developed.…”

An observation support system with an adaptive ontology-driven user interface for the modeling of complex behaviors during surgical interventions

“…In previous work, we proposed an approach that allows for a medium level of granularity to be used for the decomposition of surgical process steps into categories, as described in the following section, in order to accommodate the complexity and diversity of information and the high variability of surgery. An observation support software, known as the Surgical Workflow Editor (Neumuth, Czygan, Strauss, Meixensberger, & Burgert, 2009;Neumuth, Durstewitz, et al, 2006;Neumuth, Jannin, et al, 2009;Neumuth, Strauss, Meixensberger, Lemke, & Burgert, 2006), was developed for such observation on a medium level of granularity.…”

Modeling and Online Recognition of Surgical Phases Using Hidden Markov Models

“…Often, technological innovations are not well integrated into surgical workflow and there are deficiencies in effective information handling, which is also subject of recent critique [1,2]. Low acceptance concerning systems that are driven by emerging technologies and not by the need of the surgeons has been criticized [3]. To develop better solutions, that are well integrated into the surgical workflow and are adapted to the needs of the surgeon, there are several issues to deal with.…”