We report a computerized endoscopic surgical grasper with computer control and a force feedback (haptic) user interface. The system uses standard unmodified grasper shafts and tips. The device can control grasping forces either by direct surgeon control, via teleoperation, or under software control. In this paper, we test an automated palpation function in which the grasper measures mechanical ...

A " hot topic " in educational measurement is the area of computerized essay test evaluation. As essays have been incorporated into many of the standardized testing programs, and computerized testing is being implemented in more and more instances, there are many instances of where computers have evaluated the essay portion of standardized tests. In an environment where humans typically evaluat...

A framework has been developed that automatically generates context-specifi c query, and determines its query type, from computerized clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). The generated query can be submitted to PubMed using web services to retrieve and link relevant medical literature pertaining to the computerized CPGs content. This framework makes use of contexts, semantics, statistical infor...

volume is related to the surface area of contact between electrode tip and endocardium and that voltage-directed CTI ablation is an effective technique. Limited power delivery from using temperature control mode in the mini-electrode arm likely resulted from the location of the tip temperature sensor in this catheter. This, we believe, played a significant role in the less favourable outcome no...

This paper describes a machine learning, text processing approach that allows the extraction of key medical information from unstructured text in Electronic Medical Records. The approach utilizes a novel text representation that shares the simplicity of the widely used bag-of-words representation, but can also represent some form of semantic information in the text. The large dimensionality of ...

Several studies stressed that the introduction of CPOE applications deteriorates the doctor-nurse communication. But there are many factors that might influence communication behaviors, as for example the way these communications are organized. The present study aims at showing that the impact of a CPOE system on the cooperative activities can be controlled given that a good understanding of th...

BACKGROUND Medical revalidation is the process by which all licensed doctors are legally required to demonstrate that they are up to date and fit to practise in order to maintain their licence. Revalidation was introduced in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2012, constituting significant change in the regulation of doctors. The governing body, the General Medical Council (GMC), envisages that revalid...