In light of recent developments within both health care and robotics, the use of robots within the human body has become attainable. Here we discuss the milestones for the realization of autonomous microrobots in medical applications. The desired tas...
Surgical training has undergone substantial change in the last few decades. As technology and patient complexity continues to increase, demands for novel approaches to ensure competency have arisen. Virtual reality systems augmented with machine lear...
The fields of computer vision (CV) and artificial intelligence (AI) have undergone rapid advancements in the past decade, many of which have been applied to the analysis of intraoperative video. These advances are driven by wide-spread application of...
OBJECTIVE: The use of the da Vinci Robot has been fast growing in general surgery in the United States over the past decade. While the financial cost of robot-assisted procedures has been studied, there has been limited research on the educational co...
Setting patient and family expectations for postoperative outcomes is an important aspect of care, a cornerstone of which is accurate, personalized, and explainable risk estimation. Modern machine learning offers a plethora of models that can effecti...
INTRODUCTION: Trainees underestimate the amount of operative autonomy they receive, whereas faculty overestimate; this has not been studied in robotics. We aimed to assess the perceptions and expectations of our general surgery trainees and faculty o...
History is by nature a retrospective subject, there usually being an interval between any event, a review or impact of the subject being considered. This NPSA Historian's paper, takes a long and quick historical view of influences that fostered chang...
Computer methods and programs in biomedicine
Nov 19, 2019
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Surgical skill assessment aims to objectively evaluate and provide constructive feedback for trainee surgeons. Conventional methods require direct observation with assessment from surgical experts which are both unscalable a...
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