{"doi":"10.1089/end.2023.0328","title":"Artificial Intelligence-Based Video Feedback to Improve Novice Performance on Robotic Suturing Skills: A Pilot Study","abstract":"Introduction: Automated skills assessment can provide surgical trainees with objective, personalized feedback during training. Here, we measure the efficacy of artificial intelligence (AI)-based feedback on a robotic suturing task. Materials and Methods: Forty-two participants with no robotic surgical experience were randomized to a control or feedback group and video-recorded while completing two rounds (R1 and R2) of suturing tasks on a da Vinci surgical robot. Participants were assessed on needle handling and needle driving, and feedback was provided via a visual interface after R1. For feedback group, participants were informed of their AI-based skill assessment and presented with specific video clips from R1. For control group, participants were presented with randomly selected video clips from R1 as a placebo. Participants from each group were further labeled as underperformers or innate-performers based on a median split of their technical skill scores from R1. Results: Demographic features were similar between the control ( n = 20) and feedback group ( n = 22) ( p > 0.05). Observing the improvement from R1 to R2, the feedback group had a significantly larger improvement in needle handling score (0.30 vs −0.02, p = 0.018) when compared with the control group, although the improvement of needle driving score was not significant when compared with the control group (0.17 vs −0.40, p = 0.074). All innate-performers exhibited similar improvements across rounds, regardless of feedback ( p > 0.05). In contrast, underperformers in the feedback group improved more than the control group in needle handling ( p = 0.02). Conclusion: AI-based feedback facilitates surgical trainees' acquisition of robotic technical skills, especially underperformers. Future research will extend AI-based feedback to additional suturing skills, surgical tasks, and experience groups.","journal":"Journal of Endourology","year":2023,"id":326328,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":29,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9489,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1045270,"name":"Dani Kiyasseh","orcid":"0000-0002-2898-1790","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":911888,"name":"Jasper Laca","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":552259,"name":"Rafał Kocielnik","orcid":"0000-0001-5602-6056","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":911890,"name":"Elyssa Y. Wong","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1045879,"name":"Timothy N. Chu","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":522004,"name":"Steven Cen","orcid":"0000-0002-7859-8909","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1045880,"name":"Cherine H. Yang","orcid":null,"position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1045881,"name":"Istabraq S. Dalieh","orcid":null,"position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1045271,"name":"Taseen F. Haque","orcid":"0000-0002-7165-6539","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1045272,"name":"Mitchell G. Goldenberg","orcid":"0000-0002-4601-5721","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":20398,"name":"XIUZHEN HUANG","orcid":"0000-0003-0498-3131","position":11,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":805107,"name":"Anima Anandkumar","orcid":"0000-0002-6974-6797","position":12,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":461475,"name":"Andrew J. Hung","orcid":"0000-0002-7201-6736","position":13,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":680301,"name":"Runzhuo Ma","orcid":"0000-0001-6381-2661","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":14,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T01:08:33.106703Z","pmid":"37905524","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}