The AI-Medic: A Multimodal Artificial Intelligent Mentor for Trauma Surgery

Edgar Rojas-Muñoz, Kyle Couperus, Juan P. Wachs

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Abstract

Telementoring generalist surgeons as they treat patients can be essential when in situ expertise is not readily available. However, adverse cyber-attacks, unreliable network conditions, and remote mentors' predisposition can significantly jeopardize the remote intervention. To provide medical practitioners with guidance when mentors are unavailable, we present the AI-Medic, the initial steps towards the development of a multimodal intelligent artificial system for autonomous medical mentoring. The system uses a tablet device to acquire the view of an operating field. This imagery is provided to an encoder-decoder neural network trained to predict medical instructions from the current view of a surgery. The network was training using DAISI, a dataset including images and instructions providing step-by-step demonstrations of surgical procedures. The predicted medical instructions are conveyed to the user via visual and auditory modalities.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICMI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages766-767
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781450375818
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Oct 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2020 - Virtual, Online, Netherlands
Duration: 25 Oct 202029 Oct 2020

Publication series

NameICMI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

Conference

Conference22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2020
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityVirtual, Online
Period25/10/2029/10/20

Keywords

  • datasets
  • neural networks
  • surgery
  • telementoring

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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