Article intro - RAMIS Skill Assessment

Our article from last year, Nagyne Elek et Haidegger: "Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgical Skill Assessment—Manual and AutomatedPlatforms" in Acta Polytechnica Hungarica Vol. 16, No. 8, 2019  provides an overview of currently employed methods for surgeons' skill training/assessment. 

"The practice of Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (RAMIS) requires extensive skills from the human surgeons due to the special input device control, such asmoving 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 techniques is provided, focusing on their general applicability, robustness and clinical relevance."

Source: Acta Polytechnica