Ensuring privacy protection in the era of big laparoscopic video data: development and validation of an inside outside discrimination algorithm (IODA).

Journal: Surgical endoscopy
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Laparoscopic videos are increasingly being used for surgical artificial intelligence (AI) and big data analysis. The purpose of this study was to ensure data privacy in video recordings of laparoscopic surgery by censoring extraabdominal parts. An inside-outside-discrimination algorithm (IODA) was developed to ensure privacy protection while maximizing the remaining video data.

Authors

  • A Schulze
    Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral- und Transplantationschirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 420, 69120, Heidelberg, Deutschland.
  • D Tran
    Medical AI, Harrison AI, Barangaroo, NSW, Australia.
  • M T J Daum
    Department for General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 420, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • A Kisilenko
    Department for General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 420, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • L Maier-Hein
    Abteilung für computer-assistierte medizinische Interventionen, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 223, 69120, Heidelberg, Deutschland.
  • S Speidel
    Department for Translational Surgical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases, Partner-Site Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
  • M Distler
    Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
  • J Weitz
    Department of Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
  • B P Müller-Stich
    Department for General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 420, 69120, Heidelberg, Germany. beatpeter.mueller@med.uni-heidelberg.de.
  • S Bodenstedt
    Abteilung für Translationale Chirurgische Onkologie, Nationales Centrum für Tumorerkrankungen Dresden (NCT/UCC), Fetscherstr. 74, 01307, Dresden, Deutschland.
  • M Wagner
    Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral- und Transplantationschirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 420, 69120, Heidelberg, Deutschland.