Play Me Back: A Unified Training Platform for Robotic and Laparoscopic Surgery.

In this letter, we propose a training approach combining hand-over-hand and trial and error training approaches and we evaluate its effectiveness for both robotic and standard laparoscopic surgical training. The proposed approach makes use of the data of an expert collected while using the da Vinci Surgical System. We present our data collection system and how we use it in the proposed training ap...