Developing an Automated Surgical Skill Analysis Platform

Andrew Jamieson Lab

UTSW hosts nationally recognized specialists in robotic surgery who perform numerous procedures using advanced systems such as the Da Vinci robot from Intuitive Surgical (https://www.intuitive.com/en-us).  As a large training and research hospital these procedures are typically recorded and kept for later review. The potential abundance of video surgical data coupled with limitations for manually reviewing it in a timely and comprehensive fashion, immediately suggests the potential benefit of applying artificial intelligence (AI) technology to this domain. Help build the essential infrastructure that will support an AI-based system that could provide timely, quantitative, consistent, and scalable surgical skill analyses, greatly enhancing the quality of surgery as well as the effectiveness and efficiency of training. (Collaboration between Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics and Department of Surgery.

For more information about this project email Andrew Jamieson.