Real-Time Suture Thread Detection with an Image Classifier

Kyotaro Horio, Kanako Harada, Jun Muto, Hirofumi Nakatomi, Nobuhito Saito, Akio Morita, Eiju Watanabe, Mamoru Mitsuishi

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Abstract

Micro-anastomosis is considered to be a difficult task even for skilled surgeons. Our group has developed a surgical robotic system to assist surgeons. Going further, the detection of surgically relevant objects in the microscopic view is indispensable for the automation or semi-automation of the system. This paper proposes a novel surgical thread detector inspired by an automatic crack detection method. The proposed method achieved a Dice score of 76.30% and an inter-section over union (IOU) of 66.08% at 34.50 fps.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1245-1252
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Robotics and Mechatronics
Volume34
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12-2022
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Computer Science
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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