Towards Intelligent Surgical Microscope: Micro-surgeons' Gaze and Instrument Tracking

S Eivazi, W Fuhl, E Kasneci - … of the 22nd International Conference on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Companion Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent …, 2017dl.acm.org
After many decades of research, the presence of intelligent user interfaces is
unquestionable in any modern operating room (OR). For the first time, we aim to bring
proactive intelligent systems into microsurgery OR. The first step towards an intelligent
surgical microscope is to design an activity-aware microscope. In this paper, we present a
novel system that we have built to record both eyes and instruments movements of surgeons
while operating with a surgical microscope. We present a case study in micro-neurosurgery …
After many decades of research, the presence of intelligent user interfaces is unquestionable in any modern operating room (OR). For the first time, we aim to bring proactive intelligent systems into microsurgery OR. The first step towards an intelligent surgical microscope is to design an activity-aware microscope. In this paper, we present a novel system that we have built to record both eyes and instruments movements of surgeons while operating with a surgical microscope. We present a case study in micro-neurosurgery to show how the system monitors the surgeon's activities. We achieved about 1 mm accuracy for gaze and instrument tracking. Now real-time ecologically valid data can be used to design, for example, a self-adjustable microscope.
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