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. 2016 Aug:2016:981-984.
doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7590866.

Neurophysiological measures for users' training objective assessment during simulated robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery

Gianluca Borghini, Pietro Arico, Gianluca Di Flumeri, Alfredo Colosimo, Silvia Francesca Storti, Gloria Menegaz, Paolo Fiorini, Fabio Babiloni

Neurophysiological measures for users' training objective assessment during simulated robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery

Gianluca Borghini et al. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2016 Aug.

Abstract

Minimally invasive surgery can be performed with robotic assistance, as evolution of laparoscopic surgery. Robots for assisted surgery are far from being user friendly and require extensive training. To this end, ad-hoc devices and experimental set-ups are needed. The da Vinci system is one of the most diffused surgical robotics technology. The aim of the study was two-fold: i) to propose a neurophysiological measure by which objectively assess the learning progress of the users by means of a simulator of the da Vinci system, and ii) to demonstrate the advantages of cognitive assessment with respect to the standard methodologies for the evaluation of training efficiency.

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