Comparative analysis of surgical processes for image-guided endoscopic sinus surgery.

Purpose: This study proposes a method to analyze surgical performance by modeling, aligning, and comparing surgical processes. This method is intended to serve as a means to support the enhancement of surgical skills for endoscopic sinus surgeries (ESSs). We focus on surgical navigation systems used in image-guided ESSs and aim to construct a comparative analysis method for surgical processes based on the information about the surgical instruments motion obtained from the navigation system.