PitRSDNet: Predicting intra‐operative remaining surgery duration in endoscopic pituitary surgery

Abstract Accurate intra‐operative Remaining Surgery Duration (RSD) predictions allow for anaesthetists to more accurately decide when to administer anaesthetic agents and drugs, as well as to notify hospital staff to send in the next patient. Therefore, RSD plays an important role in improved patien...

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Main Authors: Anjana Wijekoon, Adrito Das, Roxana R. Herrera, Danyal Z. Khan, John Hanrahan, Eleanor Carter, Valpuri Luoma, Danail Stoyanov, Hani J. Marcus, Sophia Bano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2024-12-01
Series:Healthcare Technology Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1049/htl2.12099
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Summary:Abstract Accurate intra‐operative Remaining Surgery Duration (RSD) predictions allow for anaesthetists to more accurately decide when to administer anaesthetic agents and drugs, as well as to notify hospital staff to send in the next patient. Therefore, RSD plays an important role in improved patient care and minimising surgical theatre costs via efficient scheduling. In endoscopic pituitary surgery, it is uniquely challenging due to variable workflow sequences with a selection of optional steps contributing to high variability in surgery duration. This article presents PitRSDNet for predicting RSD during pituitary surgery, a spatio‐temporal neural network model that learns from historical data focusing on workflow sequences. PitRSDNet integrates workflow knowledge into RSD prediction in two forms: (1) multi‐task learning for concurrently predicting step and RSD; and (2) incorporating prior steps as context in temporal learning and inference. PitRSDNet is trained and evaluated on a new endoscopic pituitary surgery dataset with 88 videos to show competitive performance improvements over previous statistical and machine learning methods. The findings also highlight how PitRSDNet improves RSD precision on outlier cases utilising the knowledge of prior steps.
ISSN:2053-3713