Objective assessment of robotic surgical skill using instrument contact vibrations

• Published in: Surgical endoscopy Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 1419 - 1431
• Main Authors: Gomez, Ernest D., Aggarwal, Rajesh, McMahan, William, Bark, Karlin, Kuchenbecker, Katherine J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.04.2016; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Abdominal Surgery; Adult; Application programming interface; Clinical Competence; Equipment Design; Female; Gastroenterology; Gynecology; Hepatology; Humans; Kinematics; Laparoscopy; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Otolaryngology; Proctology; Reproducibility of Results; Robotic surgery; Robotics - instrumentation; ROC Curve; Skills; Surgeons; Surgeons - standards; Surgery; Surgical apparatus & instruments; Sutures; Validity; Vibration; United States > US; Vibrations; Objective; Skill; Robotic; Assessment

Background Surgical skill evaluation ordinarily requires tedious video review and survey completion, while new automatic approaches focus on evaluating the quality of the surgeon’s movements in free space. Robotic surgical instrument vibrations are simple to measure and physically correspond to how...