Automatic matching of surgeries to predict surgeons' next actions.

Journal: Artificial intelligence in medicine
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: More than half a million surgeries are performed every day worldwide, which makes surgery one of the most important component of global health care. In this context, the objective of this paper is to introduce a new method for the prediction of the possible next task that a surgeon is going to perform during surgery.

Authors

  • Germain Forestier
  • François Petitjean
    Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Electronic address: francois.petitjean@monash.edu.
  • Laurent Riffaud
    INSERM MediCIS, Unit U1099 LTSI, University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France; Department of Neurosurgery, Pontchaillou University Hospital, Rennes, France. Electronic address: laurent.riffaud@chu-rennes.fr.
  • Pierre Jannin