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1. 3. 2017.
Towards automated spectroscopic tissue classification in thyroid and parathyroid surgery
In (para‐)thyroid surgery iatrogenic parathyroid injury should be prevented. To aid the surgeons’ eye, a camera system enabling parathyroid‐specific image enhancement would be useful. Hyperspectral camera technology might work, provided that the spectral signature of parathyroid tissue offers enough specific features to be reliably and automatically distinguished from surrounding tissues. As a first step to investigate this, we examined the feasibility of wide band diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) for automated spectroscopic tissue classification, using silicon (Si) and indium‐gallium‐arsenide (InGaAs) sensors.