Anatomical recognition artificial intelligence for identifying the recurrent laryngeal nerve during endoscopic thyroid surgery: A single‐center feasibility study
Yukio Nishiya, Kazuto Matsuura, Tateo Ogane, Kazuyuki Hayashi, Yumi Kinebuchi, Hirotaka Tanaka, Wataru Okano, Toshifumi Tomioka, Takeshi Shinozaki, Ryuichi Hayashi · 2024
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Description
Yukio Nishiya and nine co-authors wrote this 2024 study teaching an AI to spot a nerve surgeons must not cut. The recurrent laryngeal nerve, which serves the voice, lies in harm's way during thyroid surgery, worst of all in endoscopic operations with narrow views. The team trained a segmentation model on forty recorded operations from their hospital.
The model outlined the trachea with good overlap accuracy and the target nerve moderately well, while a nearby artery scored lowest. Image augmentation steps, cropping and resizing among them, trimmed false alarms. The authors call the feasibility result promising: an always-on anatomical highlighter could warn surgeons as they approach the nerve. They frame it as assistance, not replacement, aimed at the gasless endoscopic neck operations their center performs.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yukio Nishiya, Kazuto Matsuura, Tateo Ogane, Kazuyuki Hayashi, Yumi Kinebuchi, Hirotaka Tanaka, Wataru Okano, Toshifumi Tomioka, Takeshi Shinozaki, Ryuichi Hayashi |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |