Key result
Artificial intelligence shows extensive clinical potential and will increasingly shape surgical practice.
Why the study?
With publications regarding AI and surgery increasing dramatically and AI poised to become a major component of surgical practice, a summarized overview of AI principles and potential surgical applications was needed.
This narrative review provides a general introduction and overview of artificial intelligence and its potential clinical applications in the surgical setting.
Should not yet change surgical practice; leaves open the need for prospective validation of AI applications.
AI (Artificial intelligence) is an interdisciplinary field aimed at the development of algorithms to endow machines with the capability of executing cognitive tasks. The number of publications regarding AI and surgery has increased dramatically over the last two decades. This phenomenon can partly be explained by the exponential growth in computing power available to the largest AI training runs. AI can be classified into different sub-domains with extensive potential clinical applications in the surgical setting. AI will increasingly become a major component of clinical practice in surgery. The aim of the present Narrative Review is to give a general introduction and summarized overview of AI, as well as to present additional remarks on potential surgical applications and future perspectives in surgery.
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Mangano et al. (2020) conducted a review in Surgery. Artificial Intelligence was evaluated. Artificial intelligence has extensive potential clinical applications in the surgical setting and will increasingly become a major component of clinical practice in surgery.
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