This is the next lecture in the series of NICE presentations.

Phacoemulsification is one of the core surgical skills in ophthalmic training and the most common procedure in ophthalmology. This work is a part of the project that aims to develop a tool to measure the surgical competence and technical skill through analysing the instrument movement in surgical videos. 

In this talk, Phil Smith will describe an approach that is able to track surgical instruments in cataract surgery using particle filters with a motion and colour based detector. Where experiments have shown it is possible to track an instrument even when prior information regarding its appearance is limited