Critical Paper Review Computer Integrated Surgery II

Relevance of the paper to this project: This paper provides a great background and a very good starting point for anyone interested in evaluating surgical skills. This paper shows how motion analysis is a useful measure of surgical skill evaluation, talks about different ways to capture motion in a surgical procedure and discusses a wide variety of methods that have been used to build an evaluation model and how they compare with each other. My project is surgical skill evaluation for endoscopic sinus surgery, which is a minimally invasive kind of surgery. This paper gives an idea of what would be a good measure for surgical skill evaluation for this surgery and what kind of tracking method would allow me to capture useful information. Finally, it gives me an idea of what kind of data modeling method should be tried in my specific case and provides a brief introduction to the method and a reference to look for in order to implement it.