Event Understanding in Endoscopic Surgery Videos

Abstract

Event detection and understanding is an important area in computer science and especially multimedia. The term event is very broad, and we want to propose a novel event based view on endoscopic surgeries. Thus, with the novel view on surgery in this paper, we want to provide a better understanding and possible way of segmentation of the whole event surgery but also the included sub-events. To achieve this sophisticated goal, we present an annotation tool in combination with a thinking aloud test with an experienced surgeon.