Support vector machines improve the accuracy of evaluation for the performance of laparoscopic training tasks

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 170-178

  Allen, Brian ^a   Nistor, Vasile ^b   Dutson, Erik ^b   Carman, Greg ^b   Lewis, Catherine ^b   Faloutsos, Petros ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Minimally invasive surgery; Motion analysis; Objective evaluation; Support vector machines; Training

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEDICAL EXPERT; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; SURGEON; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 74149090633     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-009-0556-6     Document Type: Article

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