Automated surgical workflow analysis and understanding can assist surgeons to standardize procedures and enhance post-surgical assessment and indexing, as well as, interventional monitoring. Computer-assisted interventional (CAI) systems based on video can perform workflow estimation through surgical instruments' recog…
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Method detects surgical deviations during laparoscopic rectopexy.
problem Detecting deviations from standard surgical processes during laparoscopic rectopexy.
method Multi-dimensional non-linear temporal scaling with a hidden semi-Markov model.
result Over 90% accuracy in detecting deviations.
Convolutional neural networks improve surgical skill evaluation.
problem Manual feedback from senior surgeons is laborious, expensive, and subjective.
method Fully convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for classifying and regressing surgical skills.
result Deep neural networks achieve competitive performance on JIGSAWS dataset.
The paper improves SVM for predicting hospital readmissions by clustering patients and personalizing recommendations.
problem Predicting and preventing hospital readmissions.
method Cluster-dependent SVM with personalized prescriptions.
result Personalized recommendations reduce hospital readmissions.
PHASE predicts surgical complications from physiological signals.
problem Predicting adverse surgical outcomes from physiological signals.
method Self-supervised transfer learning for physiological signals.
result PHASE outperforms other approaches in predicting five surgical complications.
The paper proposes a method to align surgical videos using kinematic data.
problem Difficulty in learning from comparing novice to expert surgical videos due to variability in gesture duration and execution.
method A novel technique using Dynamic Time Warping to synchronize videos of the same gesture at different speeds.
result The proposed approach allows for the alignment of surgical videos, enabling better learning for novice trainees.
Vision algorithms capable of interpreting scenes from a real-time video stream are necessary for computer-assisted surgery systems to achieve context-aware behavior. In laparoscopic procedures one particular algorithm needed for such systems is the identification of surgical phases, for which the current state of the a…
Surgeons normally need surgical scissors and tissue grippers to cut through a deformable surgical tissue. The cutting accuracy depends on the skills to manipulate these two tools. Such skills are part of basic surgical skills training as in the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery. The gripper is used to pinch a point …
Paper proposes an active learning method for surgical workflow recognition using long-range temporal dependency.
problem Challenges in automatic surgical workflow recognition due to lack of large-scale labelled datasets.
method NL-RCNet with non-local block for capturing long-range temporal dependency and intra-clip dependency score for selection.
result Our approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods by selecting only 50% of samples for training.
The paper uses facial keypoints to estimate post-surgical pain intensity.
problem Accurately assessing pain levels from self-reported ratings is challenging.
method The approach analyzes 2D and 3D facial keypoints to estimate pain intensity.
result The pain estimation model uses multiple instance learning.
Algorithm detects surgical site infections from hospital data.
problem Reduces incidence of surgical site infections in hospitals.
method Machine learning algorithms trained on hospital data.
result Identifies all SSIs with minimal false positives.
Deep learning models predict postoperative complications more accurately than random forests.
problem Predicting postoperative complications to inform patient care decisions.
method Multi-task deep neural networks integrating intraoperative physiological data.
result Deep learning models improved prediction accuracy and provided interpretable risk factors.
We aim to create a framework for transfer learning using latent factor models to learn the dependence structure between a larger source dataset and a target dataset. The methodology is motivated by our goal of building a risk-assessment model for surgery patients, using both institutional and national surgical outcomes…
We develop a novel algorithm to predict the occurrence of major abdominal surgery within 5 years following Crohn's disease diagnosis using a panel of 29 baseline covariates from the Swedish population registers. We model pseudo-observations based on the Aalen-Johansen estimator of the cause-specific cumulative incidenc…
Evaluating surgeon skill has predominantly been a subjective task. Development of objective methods for surgical skill assessment are of increased interest. Recently, with technological advances such as robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS), new opportunities for objective and automated assessment framewor…
Paper introduces OTR for efficient offline RL in surgical robotics.
problem Lack of annotated datasets for offline RL in surgical robotics.
method OTR algorithm using Optimal Transport to assign rewards to unlabeled trajectories.
result OTR enables efficient policy learning from large datasets without handcrafted rewards.
We give a criterion under which a solution g(t) of the Kahler-Ricci flow contracts exceptional divisors on a compact manifold and can be uniquely continued on a new manifold. As t tends to the singular time T from each direction, we prove convergence of g(t) in the sense of Gromov-Hausdorff and smooth convergence away …
New method samples from LLM posterior for coherent, useful responses.
problem Hallucinations in large language models.
method Posterior sampling for conditional generation, with calibration.
result Achieves statistical guarantees with higher downstream utility.
Optimization framework for reconstructing missing mandible segments.
problem Missing mandible geometry in jaw reconstructive surgeries.
method Conditional variational autoencoder (CVAE) with weighted multi-target probabilistic solution.
result Statistically significant performance improvement over CVAE.
Despite spectacular advances in defining invariants for simply connected smooth and symplectic 4-dimensional manifolds and the discovery of effective surgical techniques, we still have been unable to classify simply connected smooth manifolds up to diffeomorphism. In these notes, adapted from six lectures given at the …
A large fraction of the electronic health records consists of clinical measurements collected over time, such as blood tests, which provide important information about the health status of a patient. These sequences of clinical measurements are naturally represented as time series, characterized by multiple variables a…
The study uses transfer learning to compare surgical outcomes across racial/ethnic subgroups.
problem Difficulty in comparing surgical outcomes due to racial/ethnic and geographic differences.
method Causal inference framework and transfer learning to incorporate data from multiple populations.
result Racial and ethnic differences in surgical outcomes are found, with non-Hispanic Black patients experiencing wide variability.
It is well-known that any pair of closed orientable 3-manifolds are related by a finite sequence of Dehn surgeries on knots. Furthermore Kawauchi showed that such knots can be taken to be hyperbolic. In this article, we consider the minimal length of such sequences connecting a pair of 3-manifolds, in particular, a pai…
Bayesian models can be tricked into believing false data.
problem Vulnerability of Bayesian inference to data poisoning attacks.
method Developed attacks to manipulate Bayesian posterior through deletion and replication of data.
result Demonstrated that Bayesian inference can be steered to target distributions.
Model predicts epileptic seizures by detecting preictal state using wavelet transform and PCA.
problem Predicting epileptic seizures before onset.
method Common spatial pattern filtering, wavelet transform for preprocessing, PCA for feature extraction, SVM for classification.
result Average sensitivity of 93.1% for 84 seizures in 23 subjects.
We prove that a general complex Monge-Ampère flow on a Hermitian manifold can be run from an arbitrary initial condition with zero Lelong number at all points. Using this property, we confirm a conjecture of Tosatti-Weinkove: the Chern-Ricci flow performs a canonical surgical contraction. Finally, we study a generaliza…
Z-Net improves 3D CT volume segmentation for surgical planning.
problem Discontinuities and class-imbalances in 3D CT volume segmentation.
method Z-Net uses anisotropic spatial separable convolutions to preserve full field-of-view.
result Z-Net achieves up to 12.6% improvement in IoU for CT segmentation.
We prove a monotonicity formula for mean curvature flow with surgery. This formula differs from Huisken's monotonicity formula by an extra term involving the mean curvature. As a consequence, we show that a surgically modified flow which is sufficiently close to a smooth flow in the sense of geometric measure theory is…
Instantiation-Net reconstructs 3D mesh from single 2D image for right ventricle.
problem Reconstructing 3D shape from limited 2D images for surgical navigation.
method Combines DCNN for feature extraction and GCN for mesh reconstruction.
result Demonstrates practical strength and potential clinical use.
KiTS19 dataset offers 300 kidney tumor cases with CT data and outcomes.
problem Difficulty in quantifying kidney tumor morphometry due to data scarcity and manual labor.
method Presented KiTS19 dataset with multi-phase CT imaging, segmentation masks, and clinical outcomes.
result Automated segmentation of kidney tumors is now possible with this dataset.
3D U-Net improves kidney and tumor segmentation from CT scans.
problem Manual segmentation by clinicians is laborious and error-prone.
method Multi-scale supervised 3D U-Net with deep supervision and post-processing.
result MSS U-Net achieves high Dice coefficients (0.969 for kidney, 0.805 for tumor) on KiTS19 dataset.
The paper tackles distribution-free prediction intervals for multi-source data.
problem Challenges in achieving valid inferences due to distribution shifts and privacy concerns.
method Derives efficient influence functions, incorporates machine learning, and proposes data-adaptive strategies.
result Achieves parametric rates of convergence to nominal coverage probabilities for prediction intervals.
New biomarker predicts MRgFUS treatment outcome without contrast agents.
problem Inaccurate assessment of treated tissue viability after MRgFUS.
method Deep learning on noncontrast multiparametric MRI images, voxel-wise registration.
result Predicted follow-up NPV with DICE coefficient 0.71, outperforming current standard.
Neural network Kalman filtering improves 3D ultrasound object tracking.
problem Accurate and robust 3D positional estimation from 2D ultrasound data.
method Neural network training for out-of-plane offset estimation, combined with Kalman filtering.
result Mean error of 0.1mm for simulated data, 0.2mm for experimental data.
RRN accurately identifies landmarks in CMF bones without segmentation.
problem Accurately identifying landmarks in craniomaxillofacial bones without segmentation.
method End-to-end RRN architecture using dense-block units for landmark imputation.
result RRN achieves <2 mm RMS error in landmarking.
We use a deep learning model trained only on a patient's blood oxygenation data (measurable with an inexpensive fingertip sensor) to predict impending hypoxemia (low blood oxygen) more accurately than trained anesthesiologists with access to all the data recorded in a modern operating room. We also provide a simple way…
We show that quasi-alternating links arise naturally when considering surgery on a strongly invertible L-space knot (that is, a knot that yields an L-space for some Dehn surgery). In particular, we show that for many known classes of L-space knots, every sufficiently large surgery may be realized as the two-fold branch…
In many safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving and surgical robots, it is desirable to obtain prediction uncertainties from object detection modules to help support safe decision-making. Specifically, such modules need to estimate the probability of each predicted object in a given region and the confi…
A benchmark evaluates ioUS-to-MR synthesis methods for brain tumor surgery.
problem Difficult interpretation of ioUS images for brain tumor surgery.
method Six generators trained under four inference regimes and two targets on public data.
result SynDiff-2.5D best preserved downstream segmentation (U_Dice=0.55).
Deep neural network improves EEG-based epilepsy diagnosis.
problem Automated identification of seizure onset zones in epilepsy patients.
method Residual deep convolutional neural network trained on raw EEG data.
result State-of-the-art performance on epilepsy classification benchmarks.
Hospital Readmission Prediction - Applying Hierarchical Sparsity Norms for Interpretable Modelscs.LG
Hospital readmissions have become one of the key measures of healthcare quality. Preventable readmissions have been identified as one of the primary targets for reducing costs and improving healthcare delivery. However, most data driven studies for understanding readmissions have produced black box classification and p…
Clinical measurements collected over time are naturally represented as multivariate time series (MTS), which often contain missing data. An autoencoder can learn low dimensional vectorial representations of MTS that preserve important data characteristics, but cannot deal explicitly with missing data. In this work, we …
The paper solves a 5-manifold foliation problem using a Sasaki-Ricci flow.
problem Solving foliation singularities on Sasakian 5-manifolds.
method Applying the Sasaki-Ricci flow to resolve cyclic quotient foliation singularities.
result Proves a Sasaki analogue of the analytic minimal model program.
In healthcare applications, temporal variables that encode movement, health status and longitudinal patient evolution are often accompanied by rich structured information such as demographics, diagnostics and medical exam data. However, current methods do not jointly optimize over structured covariates and time series …
New framework predicts arterial blood pressure from MRI data using physics-informed neural networks.
problem Clinical applicability of predictive cardiovascular flow models is hindered by computational cost and tedious pre-processing.
method Physics-informed neural networks constrained by conservation of mass and momentum principles.
result Deep neural networks provide physically consistent predictions for arterial blood pressure without conventional simulators.
Crowdsourced reinforcement learning optimizes knee replacement pathway, reducing costs.
problem Optimizing the sequential decision process for knee replacement surgery.
method Reinforcement learning, value iteration, state compression, kernel representation, cross validation.
result Optimized policy reduces overall cost by 7% and excessive cost premium by 33%.
Early Stratification of Patients at Risk for Postoperative Complications after Elective Colectomycs.LG
Stratifying patients at risk for postoperative complications may facilitate timely and accurate workups and reduce the burden of adverse events on patients and the health system. Currently, a widely-used surgical risk calculator created by the American College of Surgeons, NSQIP, uses 21 preoperative covariates to asse…
Veering branched surfaces help construct geodesic flows on curved surfaces.
problem Constructing geodesic flows on negatively curved surfaces.
method Introduce veering branched surfaces and surgeries, then use them to construct veering triangulations that correspond to geodesic flows.
result Explicit constructions of veering branched surfaces corresponding to geodesic flows on negatively curved surfaces.