33 - Deep learning in medical and surgical instruments

Abstract

Deep learning (DL) is a host of techniques used to implement machine learning on a grand scale. They have gained popularity for their accuracy in analysis and limited human intervention to prediction results. This chapter is a survey paper on DL for medical and surgical instruments. Medical and surgical instruments have been a part of our day-to-day lives for well-being of our species. They provide monitoring, diagnoses, and medical procedures based on different levels of illness. In the following sections, we review medical and surgical instruments in practice, followed by an expose on DL techniques and available commercial and research tools. Finally, we provide a summary of some of the recent key papers, which apply DL to the medical domain and its instrumentation.