Multivariate autoregressive modeling of hand kinematics for laparoscopic skills assessment of surgical trainees

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3289-3297

  Loukas, Constantinos ^a   Georgiou, Evangelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hand kinematics; laparoscopic surgery (LS); multivariate autoregressive (MAR) models; surgical skill assessment; virtual reality (VR) simulator

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; HAND KINEMATICS; HAND MOTION; KINEMATIC SIGNALS; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS; MULTIVARIATE AUTOREGRESSIVE; MULTIVARIATE AUTOREGRESSIVE (MAR) MODEL; OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS; ORIENTATION SENSORS; SKILL ASSESSMENT; TASK DECOMPOSITION; VARIATIONAL BAYESIAN;

DATA REDUCTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; KINEMATICS; QUALITY CONTROL; RATING; SIMULATORS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKILL; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL TRAINING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAND; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 80054860938     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2167324     Document Type: Article

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