• Annals of surgery · Aug 2023

    Machine learning-based Automatic Evaluation of Tissue Handling Skills in Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery: A Retrospective Experimental Study.

    • Shoma Sasaki, Daichi Kitaguchi, Shin Takenaka, Kei Nakajima, Kimimasa Sasaki, Tateo Ogane, Nobuyoshi Takeshita, Naoto Gotohda, and Masaaki Ito.
    • Department of Colorectal Surgery, National Cancer Center Hospital East.
    • Ann. Surg. 2023 Aug 1; 278 (2): e250e255e250-e255.

    ObjectiveTo develop a machine learning model that automatically quantifies the spread of blood in the surgical field using intraoperative videos of laparoscopic colorectal surgery and evaluate whether the index measured with the developed model can be used to assess tissue handling skill.BackgroundAlthough skill evaluation is crucial in laparoscopic surgery, existing evaluation systems suffer from evaluator subjectivity and are labor-intensive. Therefore, automatic evaluation using machine learning is potentially useful.Materials And MethodsIn this retrospective experimental study, we used training data with annotated labels of blood or non-blood pixels on intraoperative images to develop a machine learning model to classify pixel RGB values into blood and non-blood. The blood pixel count per frame (the total number of blood pixels throughout a surgery divided by the number of frames) was compared among groups of surgeons with different tissue handling skills.ResultsThe overall accuracy of the machine learning model for the blood classification task was 85.7%. The high tissue handling skill group had the lowest blood pixel count per frame, and the novice surgeon group had the highest count (mean [SD]: high tissue handling skill group 20972.23 [19287.05] vs. low tissue handling skill group 34473.42 [28144.29] vs. novice surgeon group 50630.04 [42427.76], P <0.01). The difference between any 2 groups was significant.ConclusionsWe developed a machine learning model to measure blood pixels in laparoscopic colorectal surgery images using RGB information. The blood pixel count per frame measured with this model significantly correlated with surgeons' tissue handling skills.Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.

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