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Assessing bimanual motor skills with optical neuroimaging

Arun Nemani, Meryem Yucel, Uwe Kruger, Denise Gee, Clairice Cooper, Steven Schwaitzberg, Suvranu De, Xavier Intes
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/204305
Arun Nemani
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA
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Meryem Yucel
2Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Uwe Kruger
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA
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Denise Gee
3Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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Clairice Cooper
4University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo NY
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Steven Schwaitzberg
4University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo NY
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Suvranu De
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA
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Xavier Intes
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA
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Abstract

Measuring motor skill proficiency is critical for the certification of highly-skilled individuals in numerous fields. However, conventional measures use subjective metrics that often cannot distinguish between expertise levels. Here, we present an advanced optical neuroimaging methodology that can objectively and successfully classify subjects with different expertise levels associated with bimanual motor dexterity. The methodology was tested by assessing laparoscopic surgery skills within the framework of the fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery program, which is a pre-requisite for certification in general surgery. We demonstrate that optical-based metrics outperformed current metrics for surgical certification in classifying subjects with varying surgical expertise. Moreover, we report that optical neuroimaging allows for the successful classification of subjects during the acquisition of such skills.

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Assessing bimanual motor skills with optical neuroimaging
Arun Nemani, Meryem Yucel, Uwe Kruger, Denise Gee, Clairice Cooper, Steven Schwaitzberg, Suvranu De, Xavier Intes
bioRxiv 204305; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/204305
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Assessing bimanual motor skills with optical neuroimaging
Arun Nemani, Meryem Yucel, Uwe Kruger, Denise Gee, Clairice Cooper, Steven Schwaitzberg, Suvranu De, Xavier Intes
bioRxiv 204305; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/204305

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