Upfront surgery for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: Prediction of futility using artificial intelligence.

Journal: Surgery
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Abstract

OBJECTIVE: We sought to identify patients at risk of "futile" surgery for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma using an artificial intelligence (AI)-based model based on preoperative variables.

Authors

  • Abdullah Altaf
    Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, OH, USA.
  • Yutaka Endo
    Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
  • Alfredo Guglielmi
    Department of Surgery, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
  • Luca Aldrighetti
    Division of Hepatobiliary Surgery, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milano, Italy.
  • Todd W Bauer
    School of Medicine, University of Virginia, 1215 Lee St, Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA.
  • Hugo P Marques
    Department of Surgery, Curry Cabral Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Guillaume Martel
    Department of Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
  • Sorin Alexandrescu
    Department of Surgery, Fundeni Clinical Institute, Bucharest, Romania.
  • Mathew J Weiss
    Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
  • Minoru Kitago
    Department of Surgery, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
  • George Poultsides
    Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States.
  • Shishir K Maithel
    Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA. Electronic address: smaithe@emory.edu.
  • Carlo Pulitano
    Department of Surgery, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
  • Feng Shen
    Department of Surgery, Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital, Shanghai, China.
  • François Cauchy
    Department of HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Hôpital Beaujon, AP-HP, Clichy, France.
  • Bas G Koerkamp
    Department of Surgery, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
  • Itaru Endo
    Department of Gastroenterological Surgery Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine Yokohama Japan.
  • Timothy M Pawlik
    Department of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, Columbus, OH.