In Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), surgeons need to acquire a specific set of skills, before
carrying out a “real” operation. Training with the Laparoscopic Surgical Box-Trainer device …

Laparoscopic Surgical Box-Trainer devices have been used by surgery residents to learn
specific skills not traditionally taught to surgeons. Assessment of performance, however, is …

Assessment of minimally invasive surgical skills is a non-trivial task, usually requiring the
presence and time of expert observers, including subjectivity and requiring special and …

In laparoscopic surgery, surgeons should develop several manual laparoscopic skills before
carrying out real operative procedures using a low-cost box trainer. The Fundamentals of …

This pilot study examines the use of surgical instrument tracking and motion analysis in
objectively measuring surgical performance. Accuracy of objective measures in …

In laparoscopic surgery, surgeons should acquire additional skills before carrying out real
operative procedures. The manual skills component of the Fundamentals of Laparoscopic …

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of three training methodologies on
the acquisition of psychomotor skills for laparoendoscopic single-site surgery (LESS), using …

For certain surgical procedures, Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) has become more
advantageous than traditional open surgery. Therefore, mastery of laparoscopic skills is an …

We developed an abdominal phantom with an embedded stereo camera for tracking
multiple hand-held instruments inserted through entry ports. This system can be used for …

Objective Metric-based surgical training can be used to quantify the level and progression of
neurosurgical performance to optimize and monitor training progress. Here we applied …