Background: Postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF) is a critical complication of laparoscopic gastrectomy (LG). However, there are no widely recognized anatomical landmarks to prevent POPF during LG. This study aimed to identify anatomical landmarks related to POPF occurrence during LG for gastric cancer and to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) navigation system for indicating these landmarks.
Methods: Dimpling lines (DLs)-depressions formed between the pancreas and surrounding organs-were defined as anatomical landmarks related to POPF. The DLs for the mesogastrium, intestine, and transverse mesocolon were named DMP, DIP, and DTP, respectively. We included 50 LG cases to develop the AI system (45/50 were used for training and 5/50 for adjusting the hyperparameters of the employed system). Regarding the validation of the AI system, DLs were assessed by an external evaluation committee using a Likert scale, and the pancreas was assessed using the Dice coefficient, with 10 prospectively registered cases.
Results: Six expert surgeons confirmed the efficacy of DLs as anatomical landmarks related to POPF in LG. An AI system was developed using a semantic segmentation model that indicated DLs in real-time when this system was synchronized during surgery. Additionally, the distribution of scores for DMP was significantly higher than that of the other DLs (p < 0.001), indicating the relatively high accuracy of this landmark. In addition, the Dice coefficient of the pancreas was 0.70.
Conclusions: The DLs may be used as anatomical landmarks related to POPF occurrence. The developed AI navigation system can help visualize the DLs in real-time during LG.
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