Surgical skill in bariatric surgery: Does skill in one procedure predict outcomes for another?

Surgical Skill Evaluation in Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

600.646 Compute Integrated Surgery II Group 4 Project Proposal Stated Topic: Surgical skill evaluation in endoscopic sinus surgery Goal: Develop a mathematical model on surgical skill evaluation to identify and model the motion of critical movements to determine when these movements can lead to surgical complications. Team members: Vishwa Parekh Mentors: Dr. Gregory Hager, Daniel Mirota, Narges...

Does childhood motor skill proficiency predict adolescent fitness?

PURPOSE To determine whether childhood fundamental motor skill proficiency predicts subsequent adolescent cardiorespiratory fitness. METHODS In 2000, children's proficiency in a battery of skills was assessed as part of an elementary school-based intervention. Participants were followed up during 2006/2007 as part of the Physical Activity and Skills Study, and cardiorespiratory fitness was me...

Crowdsourcing to Assess Surgical Skill.

What Is the Innovation? Surgical skills impactpatientoutcomes.1Ourprofessionneedsmethods that accurately and objectively evaluate surgical skills.2 These methodsmustprovidetimelyandmeaningful feedback,minimizereviewtimeburden,andscaleforwidespreaduse.Thisevaluationhurdle may be overcome by leveraging crowdsourcing to help triage outliers and focus improvement efforts. Crowdsourcing is the proce...

Application of Skill Transfer in Robotic Surgery

Skill Chaining: Skill Discovery in Continuous Domains

We introduce skill chaining, a skill discovery method for continuous domains. Skill chaining produces chains of skills leading to a salient event—where salience can be defined simply as an end-of-task reward, or as a more sophisticated heuristic (e.g., an intrinsically interesting event (Singh et al., 2004)). The goal of each skill in the chain is to reach a state where its successor skill can ...