Title
Consistency of Performance of Robot-Assisted Surgical Tasks in Virtual Reality.
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate consistency of performance of robot-assisted surgical tasks in a virtual reality environment. Eight subjects performed two surgical tasks, bimanual carrying and needle passing, with both the da Vinci surgical robot and a virtual reality equivalent environment. Nonlinear analysis was utilized to evaluate consistency of performance by calculating the regularity and the amount of divergence in the movement trajectories of the surgical instrument tips. Our results revealed that movement patterns for both training tasks were statistically similar between the two environments. Consistency of performance as measured by nonlinear analysis could be an appropriate methodology to evaluate the complexity of the training tasks between actual and virtual environments and assist in developing better surgical training programs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.3233/978-1-58603-964-6-369
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Virtual Reality,da Vinci Robotic Surgical System,Nonlinear Analysis
Computer vision,Virtual reality,Surgical instrument,Artificial intelligence,Robot,Surgical training,Medicine
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
142
0926-9630
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Irene H Suh111.71
Ka-Chun Siu2265.50
M Mukherjee301.69
E. Monk400.34
Dmitry Oleynikov51910.67
Nicholas Stergiou6354.91