Systems and methods for training one or more training users

US9196176B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · US

Inventors

• Gregory D. Hager · Baltimore, US
• Carol Reiley · Mountain View, US
• Balakrishnan Varadarajann · Baltimore, US
• Sanjeev Pralhad Khudanpur · Baltimore, US
• Henry Lin · Hsinchu, TW
• Rajesh Kumar · Palo Alto, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 19, 2010
• Grant date: Nov 24, 2015
• Expiry date: Mar 19, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G09B19/00
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Systems and methods for training users. Surgical data related to surgical procedures done by expert level users is collected from surgical robots. The surgical data is segmented into surgemes and dexemes. The training users are trained at a level of the surgemes and/or a level of the dexemes by guiding the training users with surgical simulators to practice the surgemes and/or the dexemes, wherein the surgical simulators simulate surgery done by an expert level user.