Surgical Performance GUI with Objective Performance Indicators
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current surgical performance assessment methods lack intuitive systems and interfaces to effectively consolidate and present granular data from surgical theaters, making it difficult for surgeons and administrators to interpret and compare surgical techniques and progress over time.
Innovation Solution
A graphical user interface (GUI) system that processes and visualizes surgical data, using objective performance indicators (OPIs) derived from raw data, allowing surgeons to review and compare their performance with peers, and facilitating the analysis of skills and tasks through a structured data flow and user-friendly interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If granular surgical data is collected and stored for detailed analysis, then measurement precision and data completeness are improved, but device complexity and data processing burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The surgical data is segmented into multiple hierarchical levels: individual surgical events (cuts, sutures, energy applications), task-level aggregations, and procedure-level summaries. This segmentation allows surgeons to analyze data at the appropriate granularity without being overwhelmed by the full complexity of raw sensor data, resolving the contradiction between measurement precision and system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary processing layer that transforms raw sensor data into meaningful surgical metrics and visualizations. This intermediary system automatically aggregates, filters, and presents data in surgeon-friendly formats, maintaining high measurement precision while shielding surgeons from the underlying data processing complexity.
2Loss of information
If comprehensive surgical data is presented in detailed formats, then information completeness is improved, but ease of operation and interpretability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The graphical user interface provides dynamic data presentation that adapts to surgeon needs. Surgeons can interactively explore data at different levels of detail, drilling down from procedure-level summaries to specific surgical events when needed. This dynamic presentation maintains information completeness while improving ease of operation through on-demand detail revelation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms complex multi-dimensional surgical data into visual representations across multiple dimensions (temporal, spatial, and performance metric dimensions). By presenting data visually rather than as raw numbers, the system maintains complete information while making it much easier for surgeons to interpret and understand their performance.
3Reliability
If real-time mentor guidance is provided during surgery, then surgical training effectiveness is improved, but loss of time and mentor availability decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis of surgical data to identify performance patterns, strengths, and areas for improvement before formal training sessions. By pre-processing and organizing surgical data into actionable insights, the system enables more efficient mentor-surgeon interactions and reduces the time mentors need to spend on basic data interpretation, thereby increasing mentor availability while maintaining training reliability.
4Measurement precision
If surgeons review multiple surgical procedures in detail, then skill assessment completeness is improved, but productivity and review efficiency decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables surgeons to perform partial reviews by selecting specific procedures, tasks, or performance metrics for analysis rather than requiring complete review of all surgical data. This partial action approach maintains assessment precision for the selected elements while significantly improving productivity by avoiding unnecessary review of unrelated data.
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AI summary
Various of the disclosed embodiments provide Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for reviewing prior surgical procedures. Specifically, the GUI may allow a user, such as surgeon, to review sensor data, including video data, acquired during various of the surgeon's past surgical procedures. Some sensor data may be organized into metrics referred to herein as objective performance indicators (OPIs). Similarly, procedures may be discretized into specific tasks. By organizing and presenting data in OPI form at the task level, the GUI may facilitate efficient and coordinated review of the surgeon's progress over time across multiple procedures. In some embodiments, corresponding data from expert surgeons may also presented in the interface so that the user may gauge the surgeon's relative performance.