AI Medical Compendium Journal:
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Impact of Hospital Volume on Utilization of Minimally Invasive Surgery for Gastric Cancer.

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BACKGROUND: Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) for gastric cancer is increasingly performed. The purpose of this study is to evaluate trends in utilization of laparoscopic and robotic techniques compared to open surgery as well as utilization based on ...

Ethical, Legal, and Financial Considerations of Artificial Intelligence in Surgery.

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Machine learning systems have become integrated into some of the most vital decision-making aspects of humanity, including hiring decisions, loan applications, and automobile safety, to name just a few. As applications increase in both gravity and co...

New Frontiers of Natural Language Processing in Surgery.

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The vast and ever-growing volume of electronic health records (EHR) have generated a wealth of information-rich data. Traditional, non-machine learning data extraction techniques are error-prone and laborious, hindering the analytical potential of th...

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Surgery.

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In the present era, the technology of artificial intelligence has started to rapidly gain popularity as a revolutionary innovation in healthcare. The following article serves as the introduction to our symposium on artificial intelligence in surgery.

Predicting Patient-Reported Outcomes Following Surgery Using Machine Learning.

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Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) enable providers to identify differences in treatment effectiveness, postoperative recovery, quality of life, and patient satisfaction. By allowing a shift from disease-specific factors to the patient perspective, PRO...

A Synopsis of Artificial Intelligence and its Applications in Surgery.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has made steady in-roads into the healthcare scenario over the last decade. While widespread adoption into clinical practice remains elusive, the outreach of this discipline has progressed beyond the physician scientist, ...

A Surgeon's Guide to Artificial Intelligence-Driven Predictive Models.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) focuses on processing and interpreting complex information as well as identifying relationships and patterns among complex data. Artificial intelligence- and machine learning (ML)-driven predictions have shown promising p...

Robotic Revision of Hepaticojejunostomy for Benign Biliary Stricture.

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Surgical revision of biliary enteric anastomoses (BEA) can be a challenging undertaking and a robotic platform may provide advantages that address many of the technical obstacles. We present our technical approach and outcomes for patients undergoing...

Advancing Surgical Education: The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Surgical Training.

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The technology of artificial intelligence (AI) has made significant in-roads into the field of medicine over the last decade. With surgery being a discipline where repetition is the key to mastery, the scope of AI presents enormous potential for resi...

Deep Learning Applications in Surgery: Current Uses and Future Directions.

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Deep learning (DL) is a subset of machine learning that is rapidly gaining traction in surgical fields. Its tremendous capacity for powerful data-driven problem-solving has generated computational breakthroughs in many realms, with the fields of medi...