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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