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Automated Estimation of Anatomical Risk Metrics for Endoscopic Sinus Surgery Using Deep Learning

Published: November 10, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2511.07199v1

By: Konrad Reuter , Lennart Thaysen , Bilkay Doruk and more

Potential Business Impact:

Finds hidden dangers in head scans faster.

Business Areas:
Image Recognition Data and Analytics, Software

Endoscopic sinus surgery requires careful preoperative assessment of the skull base anatomy to minimize risks such as cerebrospinal fluid leakage. Anatomical risk scores like the Keros, Gera and Thailand-Malaysia-Singapore score offer a standardized approach but require time-consuming manual measurements on coronal CT or CBCT scans. We propose an automated deep learning pipeline that estimates these risk scores by localizing key anatomical landmarks via heatmap regression. We compare a direct approach to a specialized global-to-local learning strategy and find mean absolute errors on the relevant anatomical measurements of 0.506mm for the Keros, 4.516{\deg} for the Gera and 0.802mm / 0.777mm for the TMS classification.

Country of Origin
🇩🇪 Germany

Page Count
5 pages

Category
Computer Science:
CV and Pattern Recognition