Development and Validation of a 3-Dimensional Convolutional Neural Network for Automatic Surgical Skill Assessment Based on Spatiotemporal Video Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

A high level of surgical skill is essential to prevent intraoperative problems. One important aspect of surgical education is surgical skill assessment, with pertinent feedback facilitating efficient skill acquisition by novices.

Objectives

To develop a 3-dimensional (3-D) convolutional neural network (CNN) model for automatic surgical skill assessment and to evaluate the performance of the model in classification tasks by using laparoscopic colorectal surgical videos.

Design, setting, and participants

This prognostic study used surgical videos acquired prior to 2017. In total, 650 laparoscopic colorectal surgical videos were provided for study purposes by the Japan Society for Endoscopic Surgery, and 74 were randomly extracted. Every video had highly relia

SUBMITTER: Kitaguchi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8363914 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature