Article Intro: a review of Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgical Skill Assessment

 

Acta Polytechnica Hungarica recently introduced its special issue on medical robotics platforms, featuring an article on surgical skill assessment:

Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgical Skill Assessment—Manual and Automated Platforms
Renáta Nagyné Elek and Tamás Haidegger 

Abstract

The practice of Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (RAMIS) requires extensive skills from the human surgeons due to the special input device control, such as moving the surgical instruments, use of buttons, knobs, foot pedals and so. The global popularity of RAMIS created the need to objectively assess surgical skills, not just for quality assurance reasons, but for training feedback as well. Nowadays, there is still no routine surgical skill assessment happening during RAMIS training and education in the clinical practice. In this paper, a review of the manual and automated RAMIS skill assessment technique.

Source: APH