Fan Yang, Peizhen Zhao, Weiming Tang, Joseph D Tucker, Wenqian Xu, Cheng Wang
HIV self-testing adoption and post-test linkage to care among men who have sex with men in China: a nationwide cross-sectional survey
BMC infectious diseases
automatic surgical skill assessment emerging field beneficial efficiency quality surgical education practice prior works largely evaluate skills elementary tasks performed simulation laboratory cannot fully reflect variety intraoperative circumstances real operating room paper attempt fill gap expanding surgical skill assessment onto clinical dataset including fiftyseven vivo surgeries tackle workflow device constraints clinical setting propose robust noninterruptive surrogate surgical skills namely clearness operating field cof shows strong correlation overall skills high interannotator consistency clinical data automatic model based neural networks developed regress surgical skills surrogate cof using video input automatic model achieves 0595 spearmans correlation ground truth overall technical skill even exceeds human performance junior surgeons moreover exploratory study conducted validate skill predictions clinical outcomes patients results demonstrate surrogate cof promising approach potentially applicable clinical practice