Surgical skills: Can learning curves be computed from recordings of surgical activities?

Germain Forestier 1, 2 Laurent Riffaud 3 François Petitjean 2 Pierre-Louis Henaux 3 Pierre Jannin 3
1 IRIMAS - Institut de Recherche en Informatique Mathématiques Automatique Signal
2 Monash University [Clayton]
3 LTSI - Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l'Image
Abstract : Purpose Surgery is one of the riskiest and most important medical acts that are performed today. The need to improve patient outcomes and surgeon training, and to reduce the costs of surgery, has motivated the equipment of operating rooms with sensors that record surgical interventions. The richness and complexity of the data that are collected call for new methods to support computer-assisted surgery. The aim of this paper is to support the monitoring of junior surgeons learning their surgical skill sets.Methods Our method is fully automatic and takes as input a series of surgical interventions each represented by a low-level recording of all activities performed by the surgeon during the intervention (e.g., cut the skin with a scalpel). Our method produces a curve describing the process of standardization of the behavior of junior surgeons. Given the fact that junior surgeons receive constant feedback from senior surgeons during surgery, these curves can be directly interpreted as learning curves.Results Our method is assessed using the behavior of a junior surgeon in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion surgery over his first three years after residency. They revealed the ability of the method to accurately represent the surgical skill evolution. We also showed that the learning curves can be computed by phases allowing a finer evaluation of the skill progression.Conclusion Preliminary results suggest that our approach constitutes a useful addition to surgical training monitoring.
Keywords : Surgical process model Surgical data science DTW Learning curves
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Germain Forestier, Laurent Riffaud, François Petitjean, Pierre-Louis Henaux, Pierre Jannin. Surgical skills: Can learning curves be computed from recordings of surgical activities?. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, Springer Verlag, 2018, 13 (5), pp.629-636. ⟨10.1007/s11548-018-1713-y⟩. ⟨hal-01807121⟩

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