Does artificial intelligence accurately assess technical skills in minimally invasive surgery?
AI shows promise for technical skill assessment in minimally invasive surgery but requires better benchmarking and clinical implementation studies to address generalizability issues.
AI showed good performance in technical skill assessment in minimally invasive surgery. However, models often lacked external validity and generalizability. Therefore, models should be benchmarked using predefined performance metrics and tested in clinical implementation studies.
Pedrett et al. (Wed,) studied this question.