Patent ID: 9691290
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G09B

Claim:
1. A system for quantifying clinical skill of at least one user, comprising: at least one application operable on at least one computer, the at least one application configured for: collecting data relating to at least one surgical task done by at least one user using at least one surgical device; segmenting the data into plural surgemes and plural dexemes, the segmenting comprising normalizing the data and projecting it to a lower dimension using linear discrimination analysis; comparing segmented data for the at least one surgical task to other segmented data for at least one other similar surgical task; quantifying the clinical skill of the at least one user based on the comparing of the data for the at least one surgical task to the other data for the at least one other similar surgical task; outputting the clinical skill of the at least one user.