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Learning to see forces: surgical force prediction with RGB-point cloud temporal convolutional networks

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Abstract

Robotic surgery has been proven to offer clear advantages during surgical procedures, however, one of the major limitations is obtaining haptic feedback. Since it is often challenging to devise a hardware solution with accurate force feedback, we propose the use of “visual cues” to infer forces from tissue deformation. Endoscopic video is a passive sensor that is freely available, in the sense that any minimally-invasive procedure already utilizes it. To this end, we employ deep learning to infer forces from video as an attractive low-cost and accurate alternative to typically complex and expensive hardware solutions. First, we demonstrate our approach in a phantom setting using the da Vinci Surgical System affixed with an OptoForce sensor. Second, we then validate our method on an ex vivo liver organ. Our method results in a mean absolute error of 0.814 N in the ex vivo study, suggesting that it may be a promising alternative to hardware based surgical force feedback in endoscopic procedures.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationOR 2.0 Context-Aware Operating Theaters, Computer Assisted Robotic Endoscopy, Clinical Image-Based Procedures, and Skin Image Analysis - 1st International Workshop, OR 2.0 2018 5th International Workshop, CARE 2018, 7th International Workshop, CLIP 2018, 3rd International Workshop, ISIC 2018 Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2018
EditorsAnand Malpani, Marco A. Zenati, Cristina Oyarzun Laura, M. Emre Celebi, Duygu Sarikaya, Noel C. Codella, Allan Halpern, Marius Erdt, Lena Maier-Hein, Luo Xiongbiao, Stefan Wesarg, Danail Stoyanov, Zeike Taylor, Klaus Drechsler, Kristin Dana, Anne Martel, Raj Shekhar, Sandrine De Ribaupierre, Tobias Reichl, Jonathan McLeod, Miguel Angel González Ballester, Toby Collins, Marius George Linguraru
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages118-127
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783030012007
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Event1st International Workshop on OR 2.0 Context-Aware Operating Theaters, OR 2.0 2018, 5th International Workshop on Computer Assisted Robotic Endoscopy, CARE 2018, 7th International Workshop on Clinical Image-Based Procedures, CLIP 2018, and 1st International Workshop on Skin Image Analysis, ISIC 2018, held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018 - Granada, Spain
Duration: Sep 16 2018Sep 20 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11041 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other1st International Workshop on OR 2.0 Context-Aware Operating Theaters, OR 2.0 2018, 5th International Workshop on Computer Assisted Robotic Endoscopy, CARE 2018, 7th International Workshop on Clinical Image-Based Procedures, CLIP 2018, and 1st International Workshop on Skin Image Analysis, ISIC 2018, held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018
Country/TerritorySpain
CityGranada
Period9/16/189/20/18

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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