Eye metrics as an objective assessment of surgical skill

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 252, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 177-182

  Richstone, Lee ^a   Schwartz, Michael J ^a   Seideman, Casey ^a   Cadeddu, Jeffrey ^b   Marshall, Sandra ^c,d   Kavoussi, Louis R ^a  

^a LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EyeTracking Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BLINKING; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEASUREMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL REFLEX; RELIABILITY; SKILL; SKILL RETENTION; SURGICAL TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 77954089112     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181e464fb     Document Type: Article

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