Overall Proficiency Assessment in Point-of-Care Ultrasound Interventions: The Stopwatch is not Enough

Matthew S. Holden, Zsuzsanna Keri, Tamas Ungi, Gabor Fichtinger

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3 Scopus citations

Abstract

With the shift in the medical education curriculum to a competency-based model, objective proficiency assessment is necessary. In this work, we use exploratory factor analysis to assess which primitive metrics convey unique information about proficiency in point-of-care ultrasound applications. We retrospectively validate the proposed methods on three datasets: FAST examination, femoral line, and lumbar puncture. We identify a minimal set of metrics for proficiency assessment in each application. Furthermore, we validate that overall proficiency assessment methods are unaffected by the removal of redundant metrics. This work demonstrates that proficiency in point-of-care ultrasound applications is multi-faceted, and that measuring completion time alone is not enough and application-specific metrics have added value in proficiency assessment.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationImaging for Patient-Customized Simulations and Systems for Point-of-Care Ultrasound - International Workshops, BIVPCS 2017 and POCUS 2017 Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2017, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages146-153
Number of pages8
Volume10549 LNCS
ISBN (Print)9783319675510
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Workshop on Bio-Imaging and Visualization for Patient-Customized Simulations, BIVPCS 2017 and International Workshop on Point-of-Care Ultrasound: Algorithms, Hardware, and Applications, POCUS 2017 held in Conjunction with 20th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2017 - Quebec City, Canada
Duration: Sep 14 2017Sep 14 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10549 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

OtherInternational Workshop on Bio-Imaging and Visualization for Patient-Customized Simulations, BIVPCS 2017 and International Workshop on Point-of-Care Ultrasound: Algorithms, Hardware, and Applications, POCUS 2017 held in Conjunction with 20th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2017
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityQuebec City
Period9/14/179/14/17

Keywords

  • Surgical skills assessment
  • Ultrasound-guided interventions

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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