Background Efforts to improve surgical safety and outcomes have traditionally placed little
emphasis on intraoperative performance, partly due to difficulties in measurement. Video …

Cervical cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy and the fourth most common
cancer in women worldwide. Over the last two decades, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) …

Purpose Surgical workflow and skill analysis are key technologies for the next generation of
cognitive surgical assistance systems. These systems could increase the safety of the …

Objective: The American Board of Surgery (ABS) sought to investigate the suitability of video-
based assessment (VBA) as an adjunct to certification for assessing technical skills …

Rectal cancer presents unique challenges within the treatment of colorectal cancer more
broadly. The rectum anatomically falls at and below the peritoneal reflection as the colon …

Importance Surgical data scientists lack video data sets that depict adverse events, which
may affect model generalizability and introduce bias. Hemorrhage may be particularly …

Background Due to varied surgical skills and the lack of an efficient rating system, we
developed Surgesture based on elementary functional surgical gestures performed by …

OBJECTIVE Experts can assess surgeon skill using surgical video, but a limited number of
expert surgeons are available. Automated performance metrics (APMs) are a promising …

Thoracoscopy-assisted mitral valve replacement (MVR) is a crucial treatment for patients
with mitral regurgitation and demands exceptional surgical skills to prevent complications …

The automatic and dependable identification of colonic disease subtypes by colonoscopy is
crucial. Once successful, it will facilitate clinically more in-depth disease staging analysis …