SwRI is developing machine vision tool to improve military medical training
Southwest Research Institute is developing a machine vision tool to help the U.S. Department of Defense assess the biomechanical movements of military medical personnel during training exercises.
The simulation-based training system will compare medical trainee performance to that of experts whose physical motions, or kinematics, have been pre-recorded and analyzed in 3D with artificial intelligence. Military medical training relies on subjective human evaluations where feedback may vary among trainers, said Dr. Dan Nicolella, of SwRI s Mechanical Engineering Division, who co-leads the Institute s Human Performance Initiative with Kase Saylor, an Intelligent Systems Division manager. SwRI s research will help both instructors and trainees to objectively observe how well they are performing a specific task, providing both a quantitative score, based on expert task performance, and task-specific feedback t