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Automated benchmarking of surgical skills using machine learning

dc.contributor.advisor Essa, Irfan
dc.contributor.author Zia, Aneeq
dc.contributor.committeeMember Vela, Patricio
dc.contributor.committeeMember Ploetz, Thomas
dc.contributor.committeeMember Anderson, David
dc.contributor.committeeMember Jarc, Anthony
dc.contributor.department Electrical and Computer Engineering
dc.date.accessioned 2019-01-16T17:25:04Z
dc.date.available 2019-01-16T17:25:04Z
dc.date.created 2018-12
dc.date.issued 2018-11-09
dc.date.submitted December 2018
dc.date.updated 2019-01-16T17:25:04Z
dc.description.abstract Surgical trainees are required to acquire specific skills during the course of their residency before performing real surgeries. Surgical training involves constant practice of skills and seeking feedback from supervising surgeons, who generally have a packed schedule. The process of manual assessment makes the whole training cycle extremely cumbersome and inefficient. Having automated assessment systems for surgical training can be of great value to medical schools and teaching hospitals. The aim of this PhD research is to develop machine learning based methods for assessment of surgical skills from basic tasks to complex robot-assisted procedures. Specifically, this thesis will cover details of (1) developing novel motion based features for basic surgical skills assessment in open and robotic surgical training, (2) developing unsupervised and supervised methods for recognizing individual steps of complex robot-assisted (RA) surgical procedures, (3) generating automated score reports for RA surgical procedures, and (4) producing video highlights to indicate which parts of the surgical task most effected the final surgical skill score. Positive results from experiments conducted confirms the feasibility of providing automated skill based feedback to surgeons.
dc.description.degree Ph.D.
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/60800
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology
dc.subject Surgeon training
dc.subject Computer vision
dc.subject Machine learning
dc.subject Deep learning
dc.subject Surgical activity recognition
dc.subject Automated feedback
dc.title Automated benchmarking of surgical skills using machine learning
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Dissertation
dspace.entity.type Publication
local.contributor.advisor Essa, Irfan
local.contributor.corporatename School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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thesis.degree.level Doctoral
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