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and ability to augment the scene. Due to the programmability, better applications can be
made to train the surgeons using objective assessment.
For example, using the statistical measures, the ongoing training may be evaluated
and fed-back to the training surgeon. Some of the important statistical measures are
the statistics about the surgeon performing the training which aggregates the statistics
of the training procedures the surgeon has done. For each training procedure, the
measures of performance and quality computed from the motion data and the perfor-
mance time can be maintained.

3.1 Experimental Setup

In Fig.3 (a), the experimental setup is shown with one of the task targets known as the
microtrainer target.

(a) Surgeon using Microtrainer under Software Defined Digital Stereo Microscope

(b) Digital forceps and a micro block target

Fig. 3. Experimental setup