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19770082

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-1-21
pubmed:abstractText
Mastoidectomy is a core surgical procedure in otologic surgery. It is believed that the procedure is performed by different surgeons with some variability. However, it is also believed that all surgeons use a finite number of fundamental surgical actions to complete the procedure. To determine how a surgeon performs a mastoidectomy, we sought to identify the fundamental surgical actions [called action primitives (APs)] and determine the transition boundaries among those APs. Our motivation for this paper is both to delineate the APs necessary to complete a mastoidectomy and to optimize and potentially automate the surgical process. In this paper, we present a new approach to developing methods for parsing raw data (position and orientation of the surgical tool and end-effector force) into a sequence of surgical tasks. The overall objective is to de-construct the surgical procedure into a series of APs. This paper presents results from our initial investigation on detecting transition boundaries and identifying APs involved in mastoidectomy.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1558-2531
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
57
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
479-87
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
A step toward identification of surgical actions in mastoidectomy.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235-1592, USA. uttama.lahiri@vanderbilt.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural