A Platform for Tracking Surgeon and Observer Gaze as a Surrogate for Attention in Ophthalmic Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To develop and validate a platform that can extract eye gaze metrics from surgeons observing cataract and vitreoretinal procedures and to enable post hoc data analysis to assess potential discrepancies in eye movement behavior according to surgeon experience.

Design

Experimental, prospective, single-center study.

Participants

Eleven ophthalmic surgeons observing deidentified vitreoretinal and cataract surgical procedures performed at a single university-based medical center.

Methods

An open-source platform was developed to extract gaze coordinates and metrics from ophthalmic surgeons via a computer vision algorithm in conjunction with a neural network to track and segment instruments and tissues, identifying areas of attention in the visual field of stu

SUBMITTER: Nespolo RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9898791 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature