Alexander J W Beulens1,2, Hanae F Namba2,3, Willem M Brinkman4, Richard P Meijer4, Evert L Koldewijn2, Ad J M Hendrikx5, Jean-Paul van Basten6, Jeroen J G van Merriënboer7, Henk G Van der Poel8, Chris Bangma9, Cordula Wagner1,10. 1. Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL), Utrecht, The Netherlands. 2. Department of Urology, Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 3. Faculty of Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 4. Department of Oncological Urology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 5. Urologist N.P., The Netherlands. 6. Department of Urology, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 7. School of Health Professions Education, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands. 8. Department of Urology, Dutch Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 9. Department of Urology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 10. Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstract
BACKGROUNDS: Robot-assisted surgery facilitated the possibility to evaluate the surgeon's skills by recording and evaluating the robot surgical images. The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of using a computer programme (Kinovea) for objective assessment of surgical movements in previously recorded in existing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) videos. METHODS: Twelve entire RARP procedures were analysed by a trained researcher using the computer programme "Kinovea" to perform semi-automated assessment of surgical movements. RESULTS: Data analysis showed Kinovea was on average able to automatically assess only 22% of the total surgical duration per video of the robot-assisted surgery. On average, it lasted 4 hours of continued monitoring by the researcher to assess one RARP using Kinovea. CONCLUSION: Although we proved it is technically possible to use the Kinovea system in retrospective analysis of surgical movement in robot-assisted surgery, the acquired data do not give a comprehensive enough analysis of the video to be used in skills assessment.
BACKGROUNDS: Robot-assisted surgery facilitated the possibility to evaluate the surgeon's skills by recording and evaluating the robot surgical images. The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of using a computer programme (Kinovea) for objective assessment of surgical movements in previously recorded in existing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) videos. METHODS: Twelve entire RARP procedures were analysed by a trained researcher using the computer programme "Kinovea" to perform semi-automated assessment of surgical movements. RESULTS: Data analysis showed Kinovea was on average able to automatically assess only 22% of the total surgical duration per video of the robot-assisted surgery. On average, it lasted 4 hours of continued monitoring by the researcher to assess one RARP using Kinovea. CONCLUSION: Although we proved it is technically possible to use the Kinovea system in retrospective analysis of surgical movement in robot-assisted surgery, the acquired data do not give a comprehensive enough analysis of the video to be used in skills assessment.
Authors: Henry H Hunter; Ukadike C Ugbolue; Graeme G Sorbie; Wing-Kai Lam; Fergal M Grace; Antonio Dello Iacono; Minjun Liang; Frédéric Dutheil; Yaodong Gu; Julien S Baker Journal: Sci Rep Date: 2022-08-17 Impact factor: 4.996