Paper Info
Title
Semi-Automated Extraction Of Lens Fragments Via A Surgical Robot Using Semantic Segmentation Of Oct Images With Deep Learning-Experimental Results In Ex Vivo Animal Model
Abstract
The overarching goal of this letter is to demonstrate the feasibility of using optical coherence tomography (OCT) to guide a robotic system to extract lens fragments from ex vivo pig eyes. A convolutional neural network (CNN) was developed to semantically segment four intraocular structures (lens material, capsule, cornea, and iris) from OCT images. The neural network was trained on images from ten pig eyes, validated on images from eight different eyes, and tested on images from another ten eyes. This segmentation algorithm was incorporated into the Intraocular Robotic Interventional Surgical System (IRISS) to realize semi-automated detection and extraction of lens material. To demonstrate the system, the semi-automated detection and extraction task was performed on seven separate ex vivo pig eyes. The developed neural network exhibited 78.20% for the validation set and 83.89% for the test set in mean intersection over union metrics. Successful implementation and efficacy of the developed method were confirmed by comparing the preoperative and postoperative OCT volume scans from the seven experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/LRA.2021.3072574
IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Lenses, Image segmentation, Robots, Surgery, Cataracts, Visualization, Iris, Cataract surgery, computer vision for medical robotics, deep learning, medical robots and systems, surgical robotics, planning
Journal
6
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
2377-3766
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Changyeob Shin111.03
Matthew S. Gerber211.70
Yu-Hsiu Lee300.34
Mercedes Rodriguez400.34
Sahba Aghajani Pedram500.34
Jean-Pierre Hubschman600.34
Tsu-Chin Tsao713537.12
Jacob Rosen821.05