Automated assessment of surgical skills using artificial intelligence (AI) provides trainees with instantaneous feedback.
Researchers developed an AI-based tool tracking model to eliminate the need for human annotators in laparoscopic suturing tasks.
The study evaluated the usefulness of the tool tracking model in automated assessment during a laparoscopic suturing task in the fundoplication procedure.
The AI model achieved an accuracy of 0.817 and an F1 score of 0.806, demonstrating its capability of automated performance classification.