High-Fidelity, Low-Cost, Automated Method to Assess Laparoscopic Skills Objectively

Video Analysis in Basic Skills Training: A way to Expand the Value and use of Blackbox Training?

“…These findings may indicate that the use of automated video analysis, as described in this study and elsewhere [20,21,34], may have its main future role in a cost-efficient screening and thereby selecting novices that would benefit more from additional basic skills training in BlackBoxes in contrast to those with more developed advanced skills that probably would benefit more from going directly to HFS-training. In surgery, an efficient use of time and resources is essential to maximize the clinical output in a safe way in the present climate of restricted working hours and limited resources.…”

“…The aforementioned works have highlighted the value of motion tracking for performance analysis and evaluation both in the simulation and clinical setting. Recently, some methods employed video analysis for the evaluation of laparoscopic skills, with encouraging results [20,21].…”

An Instrumented Glove to Assess Manual Dexterity in Simulation-Based Neurosurgical Education

“…In general, they are accurate but require line-of-sight (a straight path without obstacles between cameras and tracked objects), and as an additional drawback, they are affected by lighting, so they are only useful in environments with well-controlled conditions. Zappella et al, Gray et al, and Uemura et al used digital video systems to capture hand and instruments movements of surgical trainees, information is processed and used to perform surgical gesture classification and assess laparoscopic skills objectively [32,33,34]. Harada et al designed instrumented tweezers with the ability to measure several parameters of instrument manipulation during anastomosis simulations, hardware include an Infrared optical motion tracking system, IMUs, and strain gauges [35].…”

Performance comparison of various feature detector‐descriptors and temporal models for video‐based assessment of laparoscopic skills

“…This task was also employed in a related study, where the input data included two video streams: one from the endoscope and another from an external camera capturing the surgeon's hand movements . In another study two external cameras were used to capture the hand movements of a surgeon wearing colored gloves . Video data have also been employed for similar purposes in MIS, such as behavior analysis of the surgical team , action and gesture recognition , and surgical workflow analysis .…”