Evaluating robotic actions: spatiotemporal brain dynamics of performance assessment in robot-assisted laparoscopic training.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Enhancing medical robot training traditionally relies on explicit feedback from physicians to identify optimal and suboptimal robotic actions during surgery. Passive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) offer an emerging alternative by enabling implicit brain-based performance evaluations. However, effectively decoding these evaluations of robot performance requires a comprehensive understanding of the spatiotemporal brain dynamics identifying optimal and suboptimal robot actions within realistic settings.

Methods

We conducted an electroencephalographic study with 16 participants who mentally assessed the quality of robotic actions while observing simulated robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery scenarios designed to approximate real-world conditions. We aimed to ident

SUBMITTER: Lingelbach K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11880255 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature