Surgical Skill Evaluation in Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

The sinus anatomy is in vicinity of critical regions like carotid artery, which supplies blood to the brain and the optic nerve. Thus the surgical procedure involves a lot of critical movements to be performed by the surgeon. We want to develop a model that will evaluate how well these critical movements were carried out. This model will help train the surgeons better providing them quantitative feedback on their movements during surgery. This project involves development of a recording software to record the data from surgery, a registration software the register the motion of the tip of endoscope to the CT frame and an approach towards segmenting the motion into individual movements which can then be further analyzed.