Surgical Gesture Recognition in Robot-Assisted Surgery Using Machine Learning Methods on Kinematic Data.

This work focuses on training machine learning models to recognize gestures during robot-assisted surgical procedures in real-time, using exclusively kinematic data from the patient-side manipulators. The JIGSAWS dataset, specifically the suturing tasks, serves as the evaluation benchmark. We experi...

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Published in:Studies in Health Technology & Informatics Vol. 330; pp. 568 - 594
Main Authors: DIMITRIADIS, Alexandros, MOUSTRIS, George, TZAFESTAS, Costas
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Published: Sage Publications Inc. 2025
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          DIMITRIADIS, Alexandros
          MOUSTRIS, George
          TZAFESTAS, Costas
        affil: National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
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          Robotic Surgical Procedures
          Machine Learning Methods
          Body Language Evaluation
          Kinematics Evaluation
          Human
          Descriptive Statistics
          Automation
          Deep Learning
          Neural Networks (Computer)
          Recurrent Neural Networks
          Dimensionality Reduction
          Minimally Invasive Procedures
          Convolutional Neural Networks
      ab: This work focuses on training machine learning models to recognize gestures during robot-assisted surgical procedures in real-time, using exclusively kinematic data from the patient-side manipulators. The JIGSAWS dataset, specifically the suturing tasks, serves as the evaluation benchmark. We experimented with various neural network architectures, using an LSTM architecture as the baseline approach. To further enhance performance, two hybrid approaches are proposed in this work: the first one combining an LSTM with a Conditional Random Field (CRF) and the second one integrating an attention layer. An extensive experimental study was conducted to evaluate and optimize the performance of the different approaches, and identify areas for improvement. A thorough comparative analysis of the results shows that the proposed hybrid approaches, in particular the one combining an attention layer, can improve recognition rate, as compared to relevant state-of-the-art, with accuracy of 81.56%. This study lays the foundation for further research in the field, focusing on advancing real-time surgical gesture recognition as a means to develop tools that can provide intraoperative monitoring and assistance to the surgeon.
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