Development of video editing system for laparoscopic surgery using artificial intelligence

Abstract

In recent years, the number of endoscopic surgery has been increasing in Japan. Accordingly, the amount of works of surgeons other than operation has also been increasing. Surgeons has opportunity to explain to others about the surgery they performed. For example, in the case of laparoscopic cholecystectomy, the average operation time is about 70 minutes. Surgeons makes a short video which include the scene they want to mention about 2 minutes long for case conference in hospital and about 20 to 30 seconds long for medical conference presentation. The purpose of this study is to develop a video editing system which helps surgeons to select important scenes based on some artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. In this presentation, we will introduce an overview of the AI used in the system and report on the current state of this system development.