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Record W4412166805 · doi:10.1017/cjn.2025.10337

P.208 Open and minimally invasive in-vivo accuracy of pedicle screws with an autonomous robotic system

2025· article· en· W4412166805 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Ross Johnston, Martin Oppermann, Victor X. D. Yang

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Neurological Sciences / Journal Canadien des Sciences Neurologiques · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicSpinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIn vivoComputer scienceBiomedical engineeringMedicineBiology

Abstract

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Background: Surgical robotics can minimize the discrepancy between surgical preoperative plan and postoperative execution. This work explores the performance of a supervisory-control architecture robot (8i Robotics) for autonomous pedicle instrumentation in both an open and MIS workflow in a poricne model, as well as guidance accuracy in humans. Methods: 11 porcine subjects (7 open, 4 minimally invasive) had clinical grading assessment of pedicle screw placement. 3 of the open cohort had detailed precision analysis. Post-operative CT assessed screw location. Euclidean error was calculated at screw head and screw tip and confidence ellipses generated. In two human patients, guidance accuracy was compared to existing neuro-navigation. Results: All screws where GRS A. There was no clinical difference between clinical assessment of MIS vs Open workflow. Mean tip and head Euclidean error where 2.47+/-1.25mm and 2.25+/-1.25mm respectively. Guidance was successfully obtained in both human cases. Conclusions: 100% of screws obtained satisfactory clinical grading. This demonstrates the capability of a supervisory controlled robotic pedicle screw insertion robot in both open and minimally invasive workflow. Furthermore, initial guidance was feasible in living human patients with comparable agreement to current navigation. This work demonstrates exciting promise for the future of autonomous surgical robotics.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.007

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.306
Teacher spread0.272 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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