Background There is a need to standardize training in robotic surgery, including objective
assessment for accreditation. This systematic review aimed to identify objective tools for …

Surgical skills have a great influence on surgical safety and patients' well-being. Traditional
assessment of surgical skills involves strenuous manual efforts, which lacks efficiency and …

Nowadays, surgical skill assessment becomes increasingly important for surgical training,
given the explosive growth of automation technologies. Existing work on skill score …

This letter proposes a novel video-based, contrastive regression architecture, Contra-
Sformer, for automated surgical skill assessment in robot-assisted surgery. The proposed …

Background There is increasing availability of operative video for use in surgical training.
Emerging technologies can now assess video footage and automatically generate metrics …

Quality and safety are critical elements in the performance of surgeries. Therefore, surgical
trainees need to obtain the required degrees of expertise before operating on patients …

Purpose Classic methods of surgery skills evaluation tend to classify the surgeon
performance in multi-categorical discrete classes. If this classification scheme has proven to …

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

Ranking-based skill assessment is an essential component of video understanding. In this
task lacking precise procedure annotations, existing methods place greater emphasis on …

Surgical skill assessment (SSA) plays a vital role in medical systems for reducing
intraoperative surgical errors and improving clinical outcomes. To ensure objective and …