TY - JOUR
T1 - Muscle fatigue and performance analysis during fundamental laparoscopic surgery tasks
AU - Panahi, Ali Keshavarz
AU - Cho, Sohyung
AU - Awad, Michael M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2020 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The goal of this study is to detect muscle fatigue and time-to-fatigue in vulnerable muscle groups, before determining whether the former has any effect on surgical performance. In the experiment, surface electromyography (sEMG) was deployed to record the muscle activations of 12 subjects while performing fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery (FLS) tasks for a total of three hours. In all, 16 muscle groups were tested. The resultant data were then reconstructed using recurrence quantification analysis (RQA). In addition, a subjective fatigue assessment was conducted to draw comparisons with the RQA results. The subjects' performance was also investigated via a FLS task performance analysis, the results demonstrating that RQA can detect muscle fatigue in 12 muscle groups as well as their time-to-fatigue. The results also indicated that RQA and subjective fatigue assessment are very closely correlated (p-value < 0.05). However, the performance analysis results showed that the subjects' performance improved over time.
AB - The goal of this study is to detect muscle fatigue and time-to-fatigue in vulnerable muscle groups, before determining whether the former has any effect on surgical performance. In the experiment, surface electromyography (sEMG) was deployed to record the muscle activations of 12 subjects while performing fundamentals of laparoscopic surgery (FLS) tasks for a total of three hours. In all, 16 muscle groups were tested. The resultant data were then reconstructed using recurrence quantification analysis (RQA). In addition, a subjective fatigue assessment was conducted to draw comparisons with the RQA results. The subjects' performance was also investigated via a FLS task performance analysis, the results demonstrating that RQA can detect muscle fatigue in 12 muscle groups as well as their time-to-fatigue. The results also indicated that RQA and subjective fatigue assessment are very closely correlated (p-value < 0.05). However, the performance analysis results showed that the subjects' performance improved over time.
KW - FLS task performance analysis
KW - Fatigue analysis
KW - MIS
KW - Minimally invasive surgery
KW - RQA
KW - Recurrence quantification analysis
KW - Subjective fatigue assessment
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U2 - 10.1504/IJBET.2020.111473
DO - 10.1504/IJBET.2020.111473
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85097260671
SN - 1752-6418
VL - 34
SP - 234
EP - 248
JO - International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
JF - International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology
IS - 3
ER -