New synthetic mitral valve model for human prolapsed mitral valve reconstructive surgery for training
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The training process of young surgeons is highly desirable in order for them to gain an understanding of the quality of care and patient safety required during cardiac surgeries, however, it may take a few years of practice in order for them to properly develop these skills. Artificial life-like platforms and models are extremely recommended for teaching hands-on and real-world practice in both junior and even experienced medical professionals and surgeons. Suitable and accessible training tools are of significant importance for simulating a particular surgery in order to provide practice opportunities for a specific surgical procedure. In this study, we focussed on the simulation of the human mitral valve prolapse reconstructive surgery. An innovative, artificial, biomimetic model was designed and fabricated made of Cryogel biomaterial developed in our lab that is suitable for the precise practice on the mitral valve prolapse model. The proposed model is mainly made up of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) cryogel, which is designed to resemble the geometric and mechanical properties of a diseased (prolapse) mitral valve. We simulated the constructive prolapsed mitral valve surgery entirely on a synthetic platform. The platform was made available to four certified cardiac surgeon and there were unanimously very positive with no considerable differences in the procedural assessments between them. The proposed model has a similar appearance and texture to that of a diseased mitral valve and holds consistent mechanical properties to those of the real tissue. The offered technology may be used for other cardiothoracic reconstructive surgeries with high precision and consistency.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it