1. Automatic assessment of laparoscopic surgical skill competence based on motion metrics.
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Ebina, Koki, Abe, Takashige, Hotta, Kiyohiko, Higuchi, Madoka, Furumido, Jun, Iwahara, Naoya, Kon, Masafumi, Miyaji, Kou, Shibuya, Sayaka, Lingbo, Yan, Komizunai, Shunsuke, Kurashima, Yo, Kikuchi, Hiroshi, Matsumoto, Ryuji, Osawa, Takahiro, Murai, Sachiyo, Tsujita, Teppei, Sase, Kazuya, Chen, Xiaoshuai, and Konno, Atsushi
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MOTION capture (Human mechanics) ,SUTURES ,MOTION analysis ,LAPAROSCOPIC surgery ,PRINCIPAL components analysis ,SUPPORT vector machines ,MACHINE learning ,AORTA - Abstract
The purpose of this study was to characterize the motion features of surgical devices associated with laparoscopic surgical competency and build an automatic skill-credential system in porcine cadaver organ simulation training. Participants performed tissue dissection around the aorta, dividing vascular pedicles after applying Hem-o-lok (tissue dissection task) and parenchymal closure of the kidney (suturing task). Movements of surgical devices were tracked by a motion capture (Mocap) system, and Mocap-metrics were compared according to the level of surgical experience (experts: ≥50 laparoscopic surgeries, intermediates: 10–49, novices: 0–9), using the Kruskal-Wallis test and principal component analysis (PCA). Three machine-learning algorithms: support vector machine (SVM), PCA-SVM, and gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT), were utilized for discrimination of the surgical experience level. The accuracy of each model was evaluated by nested and repeated k-fold cross-validation. A total of 32 experts, 18 intermediates, and 20 novices participated in the present study. PCA revealed that efficiency-related metrics (e.g., path length) significantly contributed to PC 1 in both tasks. Regarding PC 2, speed-related metrics (e.g., velocity, acceleration, jerk) of right-hand devices largely contributed to the tissue dissection task, while those of left-hand devices did in the suturing task. Regarding the three-group discrimination, in the tissue dissection task, the GBDT method was superior to the other methods (median accuracy: 68.6%). In the suturing task, SVM and PCA-SVM methods were superior to the GBDT method (57.4 and 58.4%, respectively). Regarding the two-group discrimination (experts vs. intermediates/novices), the GBDT method resulted in a median accuracy of 72.9% in the tissue dissection task, and, in the suturing task, the PCA-SVM method resulted in a median accuracy of 69.2%. Overall, the mocap-based credential system using machine-learning classifiers provides a correct judgment rate of around 70% (two-group discrimination). Together with motion analysis and wet-lab training, simulation training could be a practical method for objectively assessing the surgical competence of trainees. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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