SURGICAL TEAM PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS USING COMPUTER VISION: A METHODOLOGY and USE CASE STUDY

Current methods for assessing the performance of surgical teams, such as observational rating scales and team self-assessments, have significant limitations. Existing methods primarily focus on subjective evaluations of surgical team performance or use an unstructured and descriptive method, resulting in inaccurate, biased evaluations. A computer vision (CV) -based method has been proposed in this study to overcome these challenges. This technique is based on estimating the position and movement of OR staff during procedures using video data captured by standard cameras to assess the performance of Operation Room (OR) staff. We examined the feasibility of this approach by extracting OR team motion metrics from 30 videos from real-life cardiac surgery operations. Further studies are needed to provide more validation of the efficiency of this method to quantify the performance of surgical teams