“Surgery is a specialized activity and has a structure that can be taught and acquired,” said Gregory D. Hager, professor of computer science at the university’s Whiting School of Engineering and principal investigator on the project. “We can think of that structure as ‘the language of surgery.’ To develop mathematical models for this language,
“We are borrowing techniques from voice recognition technology and applying them to motion recognition and skill assessment.”
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With that information in hand, computer scientists hope to be able to recognize when a surgical task is being performed well and also identify which movements can cause problems in the operating room.
