IMPORTANCE: Deep learning has the potential to augment clinician performance in medical imaging interpretation and reduce time to diagnosis through automated segmentation. Few studies to date have explored this topic.
Dialogue-based simulation is a real-world practice technique for medical and clinical education that provides students with an opportunity to train using hands-on experiences without putting actual patients being put at risk. In this paper, a 3D inte...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
May 18, 2019
PURPOSE: A profound education of novice surgeons is crucial to ensure that surgical interventions are effective and safe. One important aspect is the teaching of technical skills for minimally invasive or robot-assisted procedures. This includes the ...
Oral and maxillofacial surgery clinics of North America
May 15, 2019
Robotic surgery is no longer a fiction and its clinical applications are rapidly developing. Robotic surgery is increasingly used because of its minimal invasiveness. This article provides an overview of robotic surgery and its current applications i...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
May 13, 2019
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Currently, the assessment of surgical skills relies primarily on the observations of expert surgeons. This may be time-consuming, non-scalable, inconsistent and subjective. Therefore, an automated system that can objectivel...
BACKGROUND: An automated method for identifying the anatomical region of an image independent of metadata labels could improve radiologist workflow (e.g., automated hanging protocols) and help facilitate the automated curation of large medical imagin...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Apr 20, 2019
OBJECTIVE: Currently, there is a worldwide shift toward competency-based medical education. This necessitates the use of automated skills assessment methods during self-guided interventions training. Making assessment methods that are transparent and...
Journal of educational evaluation for health professions
Apr 10, 2019
PURPOSE: Lack of confidence in suturing/ligature skills due to insufficient practices and assessments was common among novice Chinese medical interns. This study aims to improve the skill acquisition of medical interns with new interventional program...
Direct observation of psychotherapy and providing performance-based feedback is the gold-standard approach for training psychotherapists. At present, this requires experts and training human coding teams, which is slow, expensive, and labor intensive...
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