Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology
Aug 1, 2018
BACKGROUND: Deep learning convolutional neural networks (CNN) may facilitate melanoma detection, but data comparing a CNN's diagnostic performance to larger groups of dermatologists are lacking.
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Aug 1, 2018
Noteworthy changes coming to the practice of medicine require significant medical education reforms. While proposals for such reforms abound, they are insufficient because they do not adequately address the most fundamental change-the practice of med...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
The acquisition of laparoscopic technical skills is constrained by the limited training opportunities and the necessity of having staff physicians on site to provide feedback to the trainees. In addition, the assessment tools used to measure trainees...
Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
Jul 1, 2018
PURPOSE: This paper focuses on an automated analysis of surgical motion profiles for objective skill assessment and task recognition in robot-assisted surgery. Existing techniques heavily rely on conventional statistic measures or shallow modelings b...
Studies in health technology and informatics
Jan 1, 2018
Handing down nursing skills of experienced nurses to newcomer nurses is difficult. Kawano's earlier studies have specifically examined brain wave synchronization between a nurse and patient during intravenous injection. Presumably, a good technique c...
Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore
Jan 1, 2018
Surgical traineeship has traditionally been based on a master apprentice model where learning takes place in the operating theatre. This approach has changed over the past few years with greater emphasis on surgical training taking place within the s...