Simulated Outcomes for Durotomy Repair in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (SOSpine)

Minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS) is increasingly performed using endoscopic and microscopic visualization, and the captured video can be used for surgical education and development of predictive artificial intelligence (AI) models. Video datasets depicting adverse event management are also valuable, as predictive models not exposed to adverse events may exhibit poor performance when these occur. Given that no dedicated spine surgery video datasets for AI model development are publicly available, we introduce Simulated Outcomes for Durotomy Repair in Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (SOSpine). A validated MISS cadaveric dural repair simulator was used to educate neurosurgery residents, and surgical microscope video recordings were paired with performance data. Objects including durotomy, needle, grasper, needle driver, and nerve hook were then annotated. Altogether, SOSpine contains 15,698 frames with 53,238 annotations and associated durotomy repair outcomes.  

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ If you plan to publish work that used this dataset in any capacity, please cite this data release. These are neurosurgical training exercise videos performed on a perfusion-based cadaveric models. These simulations contain no patient data, no protected health information, and are not derived from patient care settings. All videos are owned by the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Southern California. Please email any correspondence to dandonohomd@gmail.com

Authors:

Alan Balu BS1, Dhiraj J. Pangal BS2, Guillaume Kugener MEng2, Heewon Lee BS3, Sasha Lasky BS3, Jane Han BS3, Ian Buchanan MD2, John Liu MD2, Gabriel Zada MD MS2, Daniel A. Donoho MD4

1. Georgetown University School of Medicine, 2. Keck School of Medicine of Univ. of Southern California, 3. Univ. of Southern California, 4. Children’s National Hospital, Washington, D.C.