Towards intelligent surgical microscopes: Surgeons' gaze and instrument tracking

Shahram Eivazi, Wolfgang Fuhl, Enkelejda Kasneci

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Abstract

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. Copyright held by the owner/author(s).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIUI 2017 - Companion of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages69-72
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781450348935
DOIs
StatePublished - 7 Mar 2017
Externally publishedYes
Event22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2017 - Limassol, Cyprus
Duration: 13 Mar 201716 Mar 2017

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Proceedings IUI

Conference

Conference22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2017
Country/TerritoryCyprus
CityLimassol
Period13/03/1716/03/17

Keywords

  • Eye tracking
  • Hands-free
  • Intelligent surgical microscope

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