ArticleBrain sciences2021
Studying Brain Activation during Skill Acquisition via Robot-Assisted Surgery Training.
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- Using neuroimaging to assess brain activity and areas associated with surgical skills: a systematic review.Surgical endoscopy · 2024Pooled it
- Randomized cross-over trial comparing stress responses amongst undergraduates and surgeons with and without background music during simulated surgery.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Frontal brain activity assessment during basic life support skill acquisition and transfer in serious game based learning environments.PloS one · 2026Article
- The evaluation of cognitive workload associated with indocyanine green fluorescence angiography in colorectal surgery.Surgical endoscopy · 2026Article
- Assessment of learning in simulator-based arthroscopy training with the diagnostic arthroscopy skill score (DASS) and neurophysiological measures.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Article
- Optical neuroimaging and neurostimulation in surgical training and assessment: A state-of-the-art review.Frontiers in neuroergonomics · 2023Review
- Individual differences in skill acquisition and transfer assessed by dual task training performance and brain activity.Brain informatics · 2022Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Robot-assisted surgery systems are a recent breakthrough in minimally invasive surgeries, offering numerous benefits to both patients and surgeons including, but not limited to, greater visualization of the operation site, greater precision during operation and shorter hospitalization times. Training on robot-assisted surgery (RAS) systems begins with the use of high-fidelity simulators. Hence, the increasing demand of employing RAS systems has led to a rise in using RAS simulators to train medical doctors. The aim of this study was to investigate the brain activity changes elicited during the skill acquisition of resident surgeons by measuring hemodynamic changes from the prefrontal cortex area via a neuroimaging sensor, namely, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS). Twenty-four participants, who are resident medical doctors affiliated with different surgery departments, underwent an RAS simulator training during this study and completed the sponge suturing tasks at three different difficulty levels in two consecutive sessions/blocks. The results reveal that cortical oxygenation changes in the prefrontal cortex were significantly lower during the second training session (Block 2) compared to the initial training session (Block 1) (
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