Title
3D Path Planning for Anterior Spinal Surgery Based on CT images and Reinforcement Learning
Abstract
Spinal internal fixation is one of the most complex operations, and the planning is the core process of preoperative preparation in robot-assisted surgery. Compared with posterior surgery, the anterior one is gradually accepted by the general public for more accuracy and less aesthetic impact. This paper proposes an anterior surgical path planning method based on the reinforcement learning. Firstly, the multi-task segmentation used for building the planning environment is performed on the chest-enhanced medical images, after which the 3D model of specified organs such as spine and vessels are reconstructed. Then, the surgical path is obtained by the Q-learning algorithm based on the model, while the $\varepsilon$-greedy policy is applied to guarantee the rapid convergence to global optimum. A curved limit scheme is proposed to solve the curse of dimensionality and improve the pathway searching efficiency. The experimental results indicate that the method performs well in the surgical 3D path planning. The path for the end of the robot from the entrance to the lesion site can be planned automatically to avoid the vital organs, even though without the prior knowledge of the environment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/CBS.2018.8612190
2018 IEEE International Conference on Cyborg and Bionic Systems (CBS)
Keywords
Field
DocType
preoperative preparation,robot-assisted surgery,posterior surgery,aesthetic impact,anterior surgical path planning,reinforcement learning,multitask segmentation,planning environment,chest-enhanced medical images,specified organs,spine,ε-greedy policy,anterior spinal surgery,CT images,spinal internal fixation,core process,Q-learning algorithm,3D path planning
Motion planning,Computer science,Segmentation,Internal fixation,Global optimum,Image segmentation,Curse of dimensionality,Robot,Surgery,Reinforcement learning
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-7356-0
0
0.34
References 
Authors
7
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qi Zhang1931179.66
Meng Li249.31
Xiaozhi Qi300.34
Ying Hu43822.62
Yongmei Sun57713.66
Gang Yu643134.83