Title
Instrumented glove for skills assessment in neurosurgical simulation
Abstract
Surgeon's adverse events may cause severe complications for patients; they are usually caused by the incorrect use of advanced instrumentation, poor training and surgeon fatigue. To avoid them, it is important to evaluate surgeon major variables like: real-time decision making, complex instrument control, manual dexterity, hand-eye coordination and fatigue. In order to provide a more objective assessment of those parameters, this paper presents preliminary results of the implementation of an instrumented glove for the capture of hand gestures. A description of its integration to a previously implemented neurosurgical simulation system is shown. Currently the neurosurgical simulator is able to assess decision making, appropriate use of surgical instruments and also incorporates a pressure sensitive device that gathers ergonomic data for detecting fatigue patterns. Integration of hand gesture information to the neurosurgical simulator can be used to measure fine motor skills parameters such as manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/BioCAS.2014.6981724
BioCAS
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
data gloves,ergonomics,eye,gesture recognition,graphical user interfaces,neurophysiology,real-time systems,surgery,complex instrument control,data glove,ergonomic data,fatigue patterns,hand gestures,hand-eye coordination,hand-eye fatigue,manual dexterity,neurosurgical simulation,pressure sensitive device,real-time decision making,skill assessment,surgeon fatigue,surgical instruments,bioinstrumentation,medical simulation,motion analysis
Conference
2163-4025
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.40
3
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lemos, J.D.131.48
A. M. Hernandez2114.37
Soto-Romero, G.332.16
Valade, A.451.47