Accurate and objective performance assessment is essential for both trainees and certified
surgeons. However, existing methods can be time consuming, labor intensive, and subject …

Background There is a need to standardize training in robotic surgery, including objective
assessment for accreditation. This systematic review aimed to identify objective tools for …

Dexterous surgical activity is of interest to many researchers in human motion modeling. In
this paper, we describe a dataset of surgical activities and release it for public use. The …

Objective: State-of-the-art techniques for surgical data analysis report promising results for
automated skill assessment and action recognition. The contributions of many of these …

Surgical skills have a great influence on surgical safety and patients' well-being. Traditional
assessment of surgical skills involves strenuous manual efforts, which lacks efficiency and …

Purpose Manual feedback in basic robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RMIS) training
can consume a significant amount of time from expert surgeons' schedule and is prone to …

Training skillful and competent surgeons is critical to ensure high quality of care and to
minimize disparities in access to effective care. Traditional models to train surgeons are …

Dexterity and procedural knowledge are two critical skills that surgeons need to master to
perform accurate and safe surgical interventions. However, current training systems do not …

Abstract Machine learning algorithms are gaining increasing interest in the context of
computer-assisted interventions. One of the bottlenecks so far, however, has been the …

Purpose Previous work on surgical skill assessment using intraoperative tool motion has
focused on highly structured surgical tasks such as cholecystectomy and used generic …