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Classification of hyperspectral endocrine tissue images using support vector machines

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Int. J. Med. Robot., 16 (5): 1--10 (October 2020)

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Thyroidectomy is one of the most commonly performed surgical procedures. The region of the neck has a very complex structural organization. It would be beneficial to introduce a tool that can assist the surgeon in tissue discrimination during the procedure. One such solution is the noninvasive and contactless technique, called hyperspectral imaging (HSI). METHODS: To interpret the HSI data, we implemented a supervised classification method to automatically discriminate the parathyroid, the thyroid, and the recurrent laryngeal nerve from surrounding tissue(muscle, skin) and materials (instruments, gauze). A leave-one-patient-out cross-validation was performed. RESULTS: The best performance was obtained using support vector machine (SVM) with a classification and visualization in less than 1.4 seconds. A mean patient accuracy of 68\% $\pm$ 23\% was obtained for all tissues and material types. CONCLUSIONS: The proposed method showed promising results and have to be confirmed on a larger cohort of patient data.

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