Surgery

Use of artificial intelligence for the detection of anatomical structures and surgical planes in laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) inguinal hernia repair.

Bioinspired hooves for robotics: structural, material, and functional insights.

Hoofed animals such as mountain goats, camels, horses, cows, and pigs exhibit exceptional capability...

Sex-Specific Adolescent Development of the Trochlea and Distal Femoral Physis: A 3D Shape Modeling Study.

BACKGROUND: Trochlear dysplasia is a primary risk factor for patellar instability and is associated ...

Pretherapeutic radiological sarcopenia in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a narrative review.

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains one of the deadliest solid malignancies despite adva...

Association of AI-derived abdominal organ volumetry with postoperative outcomes in clear cell renal cell carcinoma: a multicentre study.

BACKGROUND: CT-derived body composition parameters are associated with clinical outcomes in clear ce...

A machine learning prediction model and online calculator for postoperative recurrence of secondary hyperparathyroidism: A dual-center development and validation study.

BACKGROUND: Secondary hyperparathyroidism carries a high recurrence risk after parathyroidectomy (PT...

Explainable machine learning for neurocognitive severity clustering and multivariable profiling after acute coronary syndrome.

Neurocognitive impairment is a frequent complication of Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS). Current resea...

AI-Based Approaches for the Identification and Quantification of Traumatic Brain Injury in Computed Tomography Imaging: Systematic Review.

BACKGROUND: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of global disability and mortality, requ...

The Cognitive Transaction: Toward a Human Factors Research Agenda for AI in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care.

AI is now embedded in the infrastructure of perioperative care. Risk stratification algorithms, hemo...

Prediction of Rhinologic Surgery Within 90 Days Using Item-Level SNOT-22 Responses: A Multisite Machine Learning Study of 35,170 Patients.

BACKGROUND: Optimizing access to cost-effective care in capacity-constrained health systems is a con...

Risk Model for Adult Congenital Cardiac Reoperations: Analysis of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database (STS-ACSD).

BACKGROUND: Accurate risk prediction is essential for informed clinician-patient decision making in ...

Clinical heterogeneity mapping and machine learning-based prediction of recurrence in gallstone disease: a retrospective cohort study of 9,939 patients.

BACKGROUND: Gallstone disease constitutes a substantial global health burden, characterized by notab...

Machine Learning for Mortality Prediction in Infective Endocarditis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Infective endocarditis (IE) continues to be an often fatal condition despite improvements in cardiac...

Beyond the Algorithm: A Stewardship Framework for the Hand Surgeon Adopting Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is entering hand surgery through imaging, outcome prediction, and patient co...

Real-Time AI-Augmented Fluoroscopic Navigation for Intraoperative Pulmonary Nodule Localization: Prospective Observational Pilot Study.

BACKGROUND: The integration of AI into intraoperative surgical imaging represents an emerging fronti...

Integrating Lymph Node Metastasis and Programmed Death-Ligand 1 Prediction in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer From a Single PET/CT Scan: Multicenter Radiomics Study.

BACKGROUND: Preoperative stratification for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) necessitates separate...

Leveraging Natural Language Processing for Analysis of EPA Comment Quality by Automated QuAL Scoring.

OBJECTIVE: Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are core assessment tools for competency based...

Automated Morphological Phenotyping Identifies Anatomic Patterns Associated with Early Type I Endoleak after Endovascular Aortic Repair.

OBJECTIVE: Early type I endoleak (T1EL) following endovascular aortic repair (EVAR) remains a clinic...

Agreement and precision of an AI-based measurement tool during robotic-assisted sleeve gastrectomy.

BACKGROUND: Size and shape of the stomach following a sleeve gastrectomy (SG) appear to impact opera...

Research priorities in Spine Deformity: a machine learning-based topic analysis of the journal's first decade (2013-2026).

PURPOSE: Spine Deformity is the official journal of the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) and the lea...

State-of-the-art review in AI and digital technologies for spine deformity.

PURPOSE: Artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technologies are increasingly being used across th...