Operating Room Skills Could Be Improved Using Data Collected From Robotic Medical Tools

... Borrowing ideas from speech recognition research, Johns Hopkins computer scientists are building mathematical models to represent the safest and most effective ways to perform surgery, including tasks such as suturing, dissecting and joining tissue.The team's long-term goal is to develop an objective way of evaluating a surgeon's work and to help doctors improve their operating room skills. [click link for full article] ...