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 …

Purpose Basic surgical skills of suturing and knot tying are an essential part of medical training.
Having an automated system for surgical skills assessment could help save experts time …

Purpose Routine evaluation of basic surgical skills in medical schools requires considerable
time and effort from supervising faculty. For each surgical trainee, a supervisor has to …

The ability to automatically detect and track surgical instruments in endoscopic videos can
enable transformational interventions. Assessing surgical performance and efficiency, …

International benchmarking competitions have become fundamental for the comparative
performance assessment of image analysis methods. However, little attention has been given to …

We present an automated framework for visual assessment of the expertise level of surgeons
using the OSATS (Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills) criteria. Video …

Adverse surgical outcomes are costly to patients and hospitals. Approaches to benchmark
surgical care are often limited to gross measures across the entire procedure despite the …

The number of international benchmarking competitions is steadily increasing in various fields
of machine learning (ML) research and practice. So far, however, little is known about the …

Purpose Surgical task-based metrics (rather than entire procedure metrics) can be used to
improve surgeon training and, ultimately, patient care through focused training interventions. …

Introduction: A surgeon’s technical skills are an important factor in delivering optimal patient
care. Most existing methods to estimate technical skills remain subjective and resource …