Enhancing Surgical Outcomes with Optical Flow Analysis
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Optical Flow Analysis in Robotic, Endoscopic, Micro and Ophthalmic Surgery - Developing Feedback Algorithms for Enhanced Outcomes
IRAS ID
137685
Contact name
George Saleh
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Moorfields Eye Hospital
Research summary
Studies have shown that a good surgeon will display quick, economic, and precise movements and by evaluating metrics such as path length, time of procedure and number of movements, surgical skill levels can be discriminated.
We are using video recordings of routine surgical procedures to see if the instruments used during surgery can be tracked (that is to say whether this technology is able to follow accurately the instruments movement during the surgery).
The aim of this work will be to evaluate and validate this tool in a much broader variety of domains with the ultimate goal being enhanced and better quantified feedback to accelerate skills acquisition.REC name
West Midlands - Coventry & Warwickshire Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/WM/0038
Date of REC Opinion
31 Jan 2014
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion