Malone Center researchers were recognized for their outstanding poster presentation at the 2018 Triological Society Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meetings (COSM) in National Harbor, Maryland.
The 2018 Annual Meeting, held April 20-21, brought together otolaryngologists (head and neck surgeons) and other healthcare professionals to improve and expand their knowledge and skills in the field of otolaryngology.
During the Triological Society’s scientific sessions, 65 podium presentations were given and 125 posters were presented. Malone researchers won 1st place in the Allergy/Rhinology category of the scientific poster competition:
Title:
Crowd vs. Surgeons: Assessing skill in Functional Endoscopic Sinus Surgery for Tasks that require anatomical knowledge
Authors
Anand Malpani, Narges Ahmidi, Jason Ellis, Nyall London, Christopher Roxbury, Lisa Ishii, S. Swaroop Vedula, Gregory D. Hager, and Masaru Ishii
Abstract
In this work, we show that crowd (lay people) on the internet platform Amazon Mechanical Turk can assess surgical skill in functional endoscopic sinus surgery with high accuracy. Compared to previous work in this domain, our study shows that crowdsourcing can be an efficient alternative to faculty assessments even in surgical tasks that require anatomical knowledge.