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Record W4412482262 · doi:10.1109/tmrb.2025.3589768

Pretraining Using Comparable Human Activities of Daily Living Dataset in Robotic Surgical Task Learning

2025· article· en· W4412482262 on OpenAlex
Yi Hu, Mahdi Tavakoli

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Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicEngineering Education and Technology
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersChina Scholarship Council
KeywordsTask (project management)Artificial intelligencePsychologyComputer scienceMedicineEngineering

Abstract

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Training robots to acquire surgical skills poses significant challenges, primarily due to the limited availability of comprehensive datasets and safety constraints that restrict real-time trial-and-error learning. Although human Activities of Daily Living (ADL) tasks differ substantially from surgical tasks, they encompass fundamental motor skills that can serve as a foundation for robot learning. Notably, skilled surgeons often develop their advanced surgical abilities by building upon these basic motor skills acquired through daily activities. Inspired by this progressive learning trajectory, we propose a novel surgical skill training framework that enables robots to learn basic motor skills from the ADL dataset and quickly adapt to advanced surgical skills. Specifically, we propose a unified predictive representation space, constructed using probabilistic successor features, which capture the dynamic patterns of motion primitives common to both ADL and surgical tasks. To investigate the transferability of skills from human ADL tasks to robotic surgical tasks, we conducted a mathematical analysis to evaluate transferable policies and performed simulation experiments to assess transfer performance. Furthermore, we validated the practicality and effectiveness of our method through real-world experiments. Results show that our method significantly reduces the need for extensive surgical datasets, and enables efficient learning in robotic surgical tasks.

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Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.947
Threshold uncertainty score0.396

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Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.297
Teacher spread0.275 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it