Abstract Surgical procedure recognition is the process of identifying tasks and gestures done during a surgical process and is a field that has been widely researched due to its use in robot assisted surgeries to improve surgical performances and training. This work investigates the use of Quantum Machine Learning (QML) algorithms, in particular Quantum Support Vector Classifier (QSVC), for the identification of patterns in kinematic data collected from the JIGSAWS dataset which includes 76 kinematic features rela…