TY - JOUR A1 - Rückert, Tobias A1 - Rückert, Daniel A1 - Palm, Christoph T1 - Methods and datasets for segmentation of minimally invasive surgical instruments in endoscopic images and videos: A review of the state of the art T2 - Computers in Biology and Medicine N2 - In the field of computer- and robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, enormous progress has been made in recent years based on the recognition of surgical instruments in endoscopic images and videos. In particular, the determination of the position and type of instruments is of great interest. Current work involves both spatial and temporal information, with the idea that predicting the movement of surgical tools over time may improve the quality of the final segmentations. The provision of publicly available datasets has recently encouraged the development of new methods, mainly based on deep learning. In this review, we identify and characterize datasets used for method development and evaluation and quantify their frequency of use in the literature. We further present an overview of the current state of research regarding the segmentation and tracking of minimally invasive surgical instruments in endoscopic images and videos. The paper focuses on methods that work purely visually, without markers of any kind attached to the instruments, considering both single-frame semantic and instance segmentation approaches, as well as those that incorporate temporal information. The publications analyzed were identified through the platforms Google Scholar, Web of Science, and PubMed. The search terms used were “instrument segmentation”, “instrument tracking”, “surgical tool segmentation”, and “surgical tool tracking”, resulting in a total of 741 articles published between 01/2015 and 07/2023, of which 123 were included using systematic selection criteria. A discussion of the reviewed literature is provided, highlighting existing shortcomings and emphasizing the available potential for future developments. KW - Deep Learning KW - Minimal-invasive Chirurgie KW - Bildsegmentierung KW - Surgical instrument segmentation KW - Surgical instrument tracking KW - Spatio-temporal information KW - Endoscopic surgery KW - Robot-assisted surgery Y1 - 2024 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-oth-regensburg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/6983 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:898-opus4-69830 N1 - Corresponding author: Tobias Rückert N1 - Corrigendum unter: https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-oth-regensburg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/7033 VL - 169 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER -