Objective assessment of robotic surgical skill using instrument contact vibrations.

Journal: Surgical endoscopy
Published Date: Jul 23, 2015

Abstract

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 roughly instruments are handled, but they have yet to be studied as a measure of technical surgical skill.

Authors

  • Ernest D Gomez
    Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. ernest.gomez@uphs.upenn.edu.
  • Rajesh Aggarwal
    Department of Surgery, McGill University Health Centre, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  • William McMahan
    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, 224 Towne Building, 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
  • Karlin Bark
    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, 224 Towne Building, 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
  • Katherine J Kuchenbecker
    Haptic Intelligence Department, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.

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