Title
Real-time estimation of surgical procedure duration
Author
Guédon, A.C.P. (TU Delft Medical Instruments & Bio-Inspired Technology)
Paalvast, M.
Meeuwsen, F.C. (TU Delft Medical Instruments & Bio-Inspired Technology)
Tax, D.M.J. (TU Delft Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatics) 
van Dijke, A.P. (TU Delft Medical Instruments & Bio-Inspired Technology)
Wauben, L.S.G.L. (TU Delft Medical Instruments & Bio-Inspired Technology) 
Van Der Elst, M. (Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis)
Dankelman, J. (TU Delft Medical Instruments & Bio-Inspired Technology) 
van den Dobbelsteen, J.J. (TU Delft Medical Instruments & Bio-Inspired Technology) 
Date
2015
Abstract
Efficiency in the Operating Room (OR) is a topic of growing interest. Planning of care is a crucial element to ensure optimal use of the ORs. Currently, OR scheduling is considered as a complex task based on predictions of surgery duration. The latter are often based on average times, but turn out to be inaccurate in practice because of various factors (such as complexity, patient's characteristics, unexpected events, etc). The aim of this study is to develop a prediction system that estimates in real-time the remaining duration of a surgical procedure. The prediction system was based on monitoring the progress of a procedure by recording the activation of a single piece of equipment in the OR, the electrosurgical device. Support Vector Machines was then used as a classifier to predict the remaining surgical procedure duration and thereby the optimal timing to start preparing the next patient for surgery. The classifier was trained with data on the activation of the electrosurgical device during 55 laparoscopic cholecystectomies. The performance tests showed a mean error rate about 0.2, which means that about 80% of the procedures were classified correctly. The real-time prediction system is a promising tool to improve OR planning and decrease unnecessary patients' waiting times.
Subject
operating room
pattern recognition
planning
procedure duration
support vector machines
workflow
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2015.7454464
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, NJ, USA
Access restriction
Campus only
ISBN
978-1-4673-8325-7
Source
HealthCom 2015 - 17th International Conference on E-Health Networking, Application and Services: 1st International Workshop on IOR
Event
17th International Conference on E-Health Networking, Application and Services, HealthCom 2015, 2015-10-13 → 2015-10-17, Boston, United States
Bibliographical note
Geudon moet Guédon zijn. Krijg dat niet aangepast via master data; wel als extra naam toegevoegd aldaar. Zij staat gewoon verkeerd in PS.
Part of collection
Institutional Repository
Document type
conference paper
Rights
© 2015 A.C.P. Guédon, M. Paalvast, F.C. Meeuwsen, D.M.J. Tax, A.P. van Dijke, L.S.G.L. Wauben, M. Van Der Elst, J. Dankelman, J.J. van den Dobbelsteen