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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

by Adam Bohr, Kaveh Memarzadeh
June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
378 pages
12h 4m
English
Academic Press
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Chapter 8

Artificial intelligence assisted surgery

Elan Witkowski and Thomas Ward,    Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

The practice of surgery involves physical manipulation of tissue to treat disease. Over many centuries, surgical outcomes have improved with increasing human knowledge and the development of novel tools. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been defined as the study of algorithms that give machines the ability to reason and perform functions such as problem solving, object and word recognition, inference of world states, and decision-making. Surgery is therefore a natural and yet complex application for AI technologies. Operations require surgeons to synthesize ...

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