Laparoscopic Suture Gestures Recognition via Machine Learning: A Method for Validation of Kinematic Features Selection

In minimally invasive surgery, robotics integration has been crucial, with a current focus on developing collaborative algorithms to reduce surgeons’ workload. Effective human-robot collaboration requires robots to perceive surgeons’ gestures during interventions for appropriat...

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Main Authors: Juan M. Herrera-Lopez, Alvaro Galan-Cuenca, Antonio J. Reina, Isabel Garcia-Morales, Victor F. Munoz
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author Juan M. Herrera-Lopez
Alvaro Galan-Cuenca
Antonio J. Reina
Isabel Garcia-Morales
Victor F. Munoz
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description In minimally invasive surgery, robotics integration has been crucial, with a current focus on developing collaborative algorithms to reduce surgeons’ workload. Effective human-robot collaboration requires robots to perceive surgeons’ gestures during interventions for appropriate assistance. Research in this task has utilized both image data, mainly using Deep Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks, and kinematic data extracted from the surgeons’ instruments, processing kinematic sequences with Markov models, Recurrent Neural Networks and even unsupervised learning techniques. However, most studies that develop recognition models with kinematic data do not take into account any study of the significance that each kinematic variable plays in the recognition task, allowing for informed decisions at the time of training simpler models and choosing the sensor systems in deployment platforms. For that purpose, this work models the laparoscopic suturing manoeuvre as a set of simpler gestures to be recognized and, using the ReliefF algorithm on the JIGSAWS dataset’s kinematic data, presents a study of significance of the different kinematic variables. To validate this study, three classification models based on the multilayer perceptron and on Hidden Markov Models have been trained using both the complete set of variables and a reduced selection including only the most significant. The results show that the aperture angle and orientation of the surgical tools retain enough information about the chosen gestures that the accuracy does not vary between equivalent models by more than 5.84% in any case.
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spelling doaj-art-0bbb3d031c8e4bae82ef8a05c94c12b02024-12-20T00:01:03ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362024-01-011219047019048610.1109/ACCESS.2024.351694910799090Laparoscopic Suture Gestures Recognition via Machine Learning: A Method for Validation of Kinematic Features SelectionJuan M. Herrera-Lopez0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3692-3088Alvaro Galan-Cuenca1Antonio J. Reina2Isabel Garcia-Morales3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1161-1806Victor F. Munoz4https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2404-0050Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, University of Málaga, Málaga, SpainDepartment of Systems Engineering and Automation, University of Málaga, Málaga, SpainDepartment of Systems Engineering and Automation, University of Málaga, Málaga, SpainDepartment of Systems Engineering and Automation, University of Málaga, Málaga, SpainDepartment of Systems Engineering and Automation, University of Málaga, Málaga, SpainIn minimally invasive surgery, robotics integration has been crucial, with a current focus on developing collaborative algorithms to reduce surgeons’ workload. Effective human-robot collaboration requires robots to perceive surgeons’ gestures during interventions for appropriate assistance. Research in this task has utilized both image data, mainly using Deep Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks, and kinematic data extracted from the surgeons’ instruments, processing kinematic sequences with Markov models, Recurrent Neural Networks and even unsupervised learning techniques. However, most studies that develop recognition models with kinematic data do not take into account any study of the significance that each kinematic variable plays in the recognition task, allowing for informed decisions at the time of training simpler models and choosing the sensor systems in deployment platforms. For that purpose, this work models the laparoscopic suturing manoeuvre as a set of simpler gestures to be recognized and, using the ReliefF algorithm on the JIGSAWS dataset’s kinematic data, presents a study of significance of the different kinematic variables. To validate this study, three classification models based on the multilayer perceptron and on Hidden Markov Models have been trained using both the complete set of variables and a reduced selection including only the most significant. The results show that the aperture angle and orientation of the surgical tools retain enough information about the chosen gestures that the accuracy does not vary between equivalent models by more than 5.84% in any case.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10799090/Feature selectionhidden Markov modelslaparoscopic suturingneural networkssurgical gestures recognitionsurgical robotics
spellingShingle Juan M. Herrera-Lopez
Alvaro Galan-Cuenca
Antonio J. Reina
Isabel Garcia-Morales
Victor F. Munoz
Laparoscopic Suture Gestures Recognition via Machine Learning: A Method for Validation of Kinematic Features Selection
IEEE Access
Feature selection
hidden Markov models
laparoscopic suturing
neural networks
surgical gestures recognition
surgical robotics
title Laparoscopic Suture Gestures Recognition via Machine Learning: A Method for Validation of Kinematic Features Selection
title_full Laparoscopic Suture Gestures Recognition via Machine Learning: A Method for Validation of Kinematic Features Selection
title_fullStr Laparoscopic Suture Gestures Recognition via Machine Learning: A Method for Validation of Kinematic Features Selection
title_full_unstemmed Laparoscopic Suture Gestures Recognition via Machine Learning: A Method for Validation of Kinematic Features Selection
title_short Laparoscopic Suture Gestures Recognition via Machine Learning: A Method for Validation of Kinematic Features Selection
title_sort laparoscopic suture gestures recognition via machine learning a method for validation of kinematic features selection
topic Feature selection
hidden Markov models
laparoscopic suturing
neural networks
surgical gestures recognition
surgical robotics
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10799090/
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