Preliminary investigation of evaluating surgical performance using an IMU device

Author

Stojanov, Toni ; Xu, Lichao ; Suvorova, Sofia ; Ioannou, Ioanna ; Vaithianathan, Tharshan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

fYear

2012

fDate

10-15 June 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

This paper investigates the use of an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) as a tool for evaluating surgical performance. The IMU device provides measurements of acceleration and rate of rotation readings which are then processed to obtain assessment metrics. The metrics investigated include stroke detection, stroke distance, as well as stroke time duration. The data processing involves expert systems for bias correction and error reduction for the accelerometer and gyroscope signals.

Keywords

acceleration measurement; accelerometers; computerised instrumentation; expert systems; gyroscopes; inertial systems; medical signal detection; surgery; IMU device; acceleration measurement; accelerometer; assessment metrics; bias correction; data processing; error reduction; expert system; gyroscope signal; inertial measurement unit; rate of rotation reading; stroke detection; stroke distance; stroke time duration; surgical performance evaluation; Acceleration; Accelerometers; Gravity; Gyroscopes; Quaternions; Surgery; Vectors; Accelerometer; Gyroscope; IMU; ZVC; surgical evaluation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Neural Networks (IJCNN), The 2012 International Joint Conference on

Conference_Location

Brisbane, QLD

ISSN

2161-4393

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1488-6

Electronic_ISBN

2161-4393

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IJCNN.2012.6252503

Filename

6252503