INTRODUCTION: Video-based review of surgical procedures has proven to be useful in training by enabling efficiency in the qualitative assessment of surgical skill and intraoperative decision-making. Current video segmentation protocols focus largely ...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Oct 25, 2022
OBJECTIVES: Manually-collected suturing technical skill scores are strong predictors of continence recovery after robotic radical prostatectomy. Herein, we automate suturing technical skill scoring through computer vision (CV) methods as a scalable m...
Over the past 10 years, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has shown significant benefits compared to conventional surgical techniques, with reduced trauma, shorter hospital stays, and shorter patient recovery times. In neurosurgical MIS procedures, in...
OBJECTIVE: Technological advances have significantly fostered the use of robotics in neurosurgery. Due to their novelty, there is a need to develop training methods within neurosurgical residency programs that provide trainees the skills to utilize t...
PURPOSE: Over 4.83 million spine surgery procedures are performed annually around the world. With the considerable caseload and the precision needed to achieve optimal spinal instrumentation, technical progress has helped to improve the technique's s...
Neurosurgery is mainly for the treatment of head trauma, cerebrovascular disease, brain tumors, and spinal cord disorders. These operations are difficult and risky, so disability and mortality are high. To reduce the risk of surgery, reduce postopera...
European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society
Jan 28, 2022
PURPOSE: The majority of lumbar spine surgery referrals do not proceed to surgery. Early identification of surgical candidates in the referral process could expedite their care, whilst allowing timelier implementation of non-operative strategies for ...
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
Jan 28, 2022
We sought to develop natural language processing (NLP) methods for automated detection and characterization of neuromonitoring documentation from free-text operative reports in patients undergoing spine surgery. We included 13,718 patients who receiv...
Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery
Jan 27, 2022
PURPOSE: Patients with pharmacoresistant refractory epilepsy may require epilepsy surgery to prevent future seizure occurrences. Conventional surgery consists of a large craniotomy with straight rigid tools with associated outcomes of morbidity, larg...
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