Towards Data-Driven Hierarchical Surgical Skill Analysis
This work addresses surgical skill assessment for clinicians, but it is incremental as it adapts existing methods to a new domain.
The paper applied hierarchical skill analysis methods from aerospace to surgical skill assessment using tool motion data from FLS tasks across multiple hospitals, evaluating outcomes based on their ability to provide relevant information across control, guidance, and planning levels.
This paper evaluates methods of hierarchical skill analysis developed in aerospace to the problem of surgical skill assessment and modeling. The analysis employs tool motion data of Fundamental of Laparoscopic Skills (FLS) tasks collected from clinicians of various skill levels at three different clinical teaching hospitals in the United States. Outcomes are evaluated based on their ability to provide relevant information about the underlying processes across the entire system hierarchy including control, guidance and planning.