Title
Evaluating Proficiency On A Laparoscopic Suturing Task Through Pupil Size
Abstract
Eye-tracking technology has been applied to surgical skill improvement and can observe differences in gaze data between the experienced and novice surgeon. Some eye trackers can even detect pupil diameter. We hypothesized that differences in technical proficiency among surgeons affect the extent of changes in pupil diameter, because the higher mental workload a laparoscopic task requires, the larger the person's pupil diameter dilates. In this study, we recorded the pupil diameters of pediatric surgeons while they performed a suturing task in a dry box environment. The more proficient surgeons exhibited a smaller distribution in pupil diameter than did the less proficient surgeons. Our data indicate that an individual's suturing proficiency is closely related to the degree of dispersion of pupil diameter.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/SMC.2015.128
2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS (SMC 2015): BIG DATA ANALYTICS FOR HUMAN-CENTRIC SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Eye tracking, Laparoscopic suturing, Pupil diameter, Dry box
Computer vision,Gaze,Workload,Computer science,Pupil,Pediatric Surgeon,Eye tracking,Optometry,Pupil diameter,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1062-922X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yang Cao142.79
Yo Kobayashi218548.42
Bo Zhang300.34
Quanquan Liu477.90
Shigeki Sugano5689161.38
Masakatsu G. Fujie629785.17