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Endoscopic Targeting Tasks Simulator: An Approach Using Game Engines, Shaun W. Carnegie
Endoscopic Targeting Tasks Simulator: An Approach Using Game Engines, Shaun W. Carnegie
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The pervasiveness of simulators used in professions requiring the skilled control of expensive machinery such as is the case in the aviation, mining, construction, and naval industries raises an intriguing question about the relatively poor adoption within the field of medicine. Certain surgical procedures such as neuro-endoscopic and laparoscopic lend themselves well to the application of virtual reality based simulators. This is due to the innate ability to decom- pose these complex macro level procedures into a hierarchy of subtasks that can be modelled in a software simulator to augment existing teaching and training techniques.
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A Software Framework For Task Based Performance Evaluation, Justin J. Mackenzie
A Software Framework For Task Based Performance Evaluation, Justin J. Mackenzie
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It is difficult to objectively measure performance of complex tasks such as a surgical operation and surgical simulators require the ability to evaluate performance whether to predict surgical outcome, determine competence, provide learning feedback, etc. With no standard software framework for collecting, analyzing and evaluating performance data for complex tasks in simulations, it is investigated whether a solution can be implemented that allows for custom data collection schemes, all while being general enough to be used across many simulation platforms and can be used in a simple simulator.It is also investigated whether the implemented framework can perform its functionality while …