TY - GEN
T1 - Objective skill analysis and assessment of neurosurgery by using the waseda bioinstrumentation system WB-3 - Pilot tests
AU - Sessa, Salvatore
AU - Zecca, Massimiliano
AU - Lin, Zhuohua
AU - Sasaki, Tomoya
AU - Suzuki, Takashi
AU - Itoh, Kazuko
AU - Iseki, Hiroshi
AU - Takanishi, Atsuo
PY - 2009/12/11
Y1 - 2009/12/11
N2 - In recent years there has been an ever increasing amount of research and development of technologies and methods to improve the quality and the performance of advanced surgery. In other fields several training methods and metrics have been proposed, both to improve the surgeon's abilities and also to assess her/his skills. For neurosurgery, however, the extremely small movements and sizes involved have prevented until now the development of similar methodologies and systems. In this paper we present the development of an ultra-miniaturized Inertial Measurement Unit and its application for the evaluation of the performance in a simple pick and place scenario. This analysis is a preliminary yet fundamental step to realize a better training/evaluation system for neurosurgeons, and to objectively evaluate and understand how the neurosurgery is performed.
AB - In recent years there has been an ever increasing amount of research and development of technologies and methods to improve the quality and the performance of advanced surgery. In other fields several training methods and metrics have been proposed, both to improve the surgeon's abilities and also to assess her/his skills. For neurosurgery, however, the extremely small movements and sizes involved have prevented until now the development of similar methodologies and systems. In this paper we present the development of an ultra-miniaturized Inertial Measurement Unit and its application for the evaluation of the performance in a simple pick and place scenario. This analysis is a preliminary yet fundamental step to realize a better training/evaluation system for neurosurgeons, and to objectively evaluate and understand how the neurosurgery is performed.
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U2 - 10.1109/IROS.2009.5353963
DO - 10.1109/IROS.2009.5353963
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:76249107159
SN - 9781424438044
T3 - 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009
SP - 4086
EP - 4091
BT - 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009
T2 - 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009
Y2 - 11 October 2009 through 15 October 2009
ER -