Automated robot‐assisted surgical skill evaluation: Predictive analytics approach

Surgical skill assessment has predominantly been a subjective task. Recently, technological advances such as robot‐assisted surgery have created great opportunities for objective surgical evaluation. In this paper, we introduce a predictive framework for objective skill assessment based on movement trajectory data. Our aim is to build a classification framework to automatically evaluate the performance of surgeons with different levels of expertise.

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