V. Penza, Andrea Santangelo, D. Paladini, L. Mattos
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产科超声(US)广泛用于产前诊断,以监测胚胎或胎儿的发育和生长,并发现先天性异常。美国在及时诊断方面提供的好处是广泛的,但检查的质量与临床医生的经验密切相关[1]。虽然对获得的技能进行适当的培训和评估被认为是确保质量考试的最重要因素,但没有欧洲标准建立对操作员能力进行客观评估的培训路径。事实上,对经验的评价往往仅仅基于所进行的临床试验的数量。然而,由于培训不足,具有日常美国考试经验的操作员可能表现不如真正的专家[2]。已经进行了许多研究来评估手部技能,目的是建立区分专家和新手的指标,这些指标也可以用于研究特定的训练并客观地评估获得的技能[3][4]。受这些作品的启发,我们也研究了胎儿在幻影上的手部运动[5]或在虚拟现实模拟场景下的手部运动[6]。本文提出了一项新的研究,客观评估操作员的经验,在产科超声检查的基础上,手势和力量与超声探头应用于腹部,在真正的产科超声检查。设计了一个数据记录系统,在美国由具有3个不同经验水平(专家、中级和新手)的临床医生对妊娠中期妇女进行检查时收集这些信息。本文给出的结果侧重于评估一组指标,这些指标有可能提供对操作人员经验水平的客观区分。相对于之前的作品,新颖性依赖于在真实场景中验证最先进的判别指标。此外,这项工作包括作为一个新颖的测量力施加在腹部,这似乎是非常相关的临床实践。本研究由利古里亚(意大利)区域伦理委员会批准,协议号379/2022 - DB id 12369。
Computer-based assessment of the operator’s experience in obstetric ultrasound examination based on hand movements and applied forces
Obstetric ultrasound (US) is widely used in prenatal diagnosis to monitor the development and growth of the embryo or fetus and to detect congenital anomalies. The benefits offered by US in terms of timely diagnosis are extensive, but the quality of the examination is closely linked to the experience of the clinician [1]. Although proper training and assessment of acquired skills are considered of paramount importance in order to ensure a quality exam, there is no European standard establishing a training path with an objective assessment of operator’s capabilities. In fact, the experience is often evaluated merely on the basis of the number of clinical tests performed. However, an operator with daily US examination experience may not perform as well as a true expert due to inadequate training [2]. Many studies have been conducted to assess hand ges- ture with the aim of establishing metrics to discriminate between experts and novice, which can also be used to study a specific training and objectively evaluate the acquired skills [3][4]. Inspired by these works, hand movement was also studied for fetal US on phantom [5] or in a virtual reality simulated scenario [6]. This paper presents a novel study for the objective assessment of the operator’s experience in obstetric US examinations based on hand gestures and forces applied with the US probe on the abdomen, during real obstetric US examinations. A Data Recording System was designed to collect this information during US examinations performed by clinician with 3 different levels of experience (expert, intermediate and novice) on pregnant women at the 2nd trimester. The results presented here focus on assessing a set of metrics with the potential to provide an objective discrimination of the operator’s level of experience. With respect to previous works, the novelty relies on validating the state-of-the-art discriminating metrics in a real scenario. Furthermore, this work includes as a novelty the measurement of the forces applied on the abdomen, which seems to be very relevant in the clinical practice. This study was approved by the Regional Ethics Commit- tee of Liguria (Italy) with the protocol number 379/2022 - DB id 12369.