Imperial College London

DrStamatiaGiannarou

Faculty of MedicineDepartment of Surgery & Cancer

Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 3492stamatia.giannarou Website

 
 
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Location

 

413Bessemer BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Kassahun:2015:10.1007/s11548-015-1305-z,
author = {Kassahun, Y and Yu, B and Tibebu, AT and Stoyanov, D and Giannarou, S and Metzen, JH and Vander, Poorten E},
doi = {10.1007/s11548-015-1305-z},
journal = {International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery},
pages = {553--568},
title = {Surgical robotics beyond enhanced dexterity instrumentation: a survey of machine learning techniques and their role in intelligent and autonomous surgical actions},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11548-015-1305-z},
volume = {11},
year = {2015}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - PurposeAdvances in technology and computing play an increasingly important role in the evolution of modern surgical techniques and paradigms. This article reviews the current role of machine learning (ML) techniques in the context of surgery with a focus on surgical robotics (SR). Also, we provide a perspective on the future possibilities for enhancing the effectiveness of procedures by integrating ML in the operating room.MethodsThe review is focused on ML techniques directly applied to surgery, surgical robotics, surgical training and assessment. The widespread use of ML methods in diagnosis and medical image computing is beyond the scope of the review. Searches were performed on PubMed and IEEE Explore using combinations of keywords: ML, surgery, robotics, surgical and medical robotics, skill learning, skill analysis and learning to perceive.ResultsStudies making use of ML methods in the context of surgery are increasingly being reported. In particular, there is an increasing interest in using ML for developing tools to understand and model surgical skill and competence or to extract surgical workflow. Many researchers begin to integrate this understanding into the control of recent surgical robots and devices.ConclusionML is an expanding field. It is popular as it allows efficient processing of vast amounts of data for interpreting and real-time decision making. Already widely used in imaging and diagnosis, it is believed that ML will also play an important role in surgery and interventional treatments. In particular, ML could become a game changer into the conception of cognitive surgical robots. Such robots endowed with cognitive skills would assist the surgical team also on a cognitive level, such as possibly lowering the mental load of the team. For example, ML could help extracting surgical skill, learned through demonstration by human experts, and could transfer this to robotic skills. Such intelligent surgical assistance would significantly surpass the st
AU - Kassahun,Y
AU - Yu,B
AU - Tibebu,AT
AU - Stoyanov,D
AU - Giannarou,S
AU - Metzen,JH
AU - Vander,Poorten E
DO - 10.1007/s11548-015-1305-z
EP - 568
PY - 2015///
SN - 1861-6410
SP - 553
TI - Surgical robotics beyond enhanced dexterity instrumentation: a survey of machine learning techniques and their role in intelligent and autonomous surgical actions
T2 - International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11548-015-1305-z
VL - 11
ER -