Artificial intelligence in surgery.
Chris VargheseEwen M HarrisonGreg O'GradyEric J TopolPublished in: Nature medicine (2024)
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly emerging in healthcare, yet applications in surgery remain relatively nascent. Here we review the integration of AI in the field of surgery, centering our discussion on multifaceted improvements in surgical care in the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative space. The emergence of foundation model architectures, wearable technologies and improving surgical data infrastructures is enabling rapid advances in AI interventions and utility. We discuss how maturing AI methods hold the potential to improve patient outcomes, facilitate surgical education and optimize surgical care. We review the current applications of deep learning approaches and outline a vision for future advances through multimodal foundation models.
Keyphrases
- artificial intelligence
- deep learning
- healthcare
- big data
- machine learning
- minimally invasive
- coronary artery bypass
- patients undergoing
- palliative care
- quality improvement
- convolutional neural network
- surgical site infection
- pain management
- risk assessment
- blood pressure
- acute coronary syndrome
- health insurance
- human health
- coronary artery disease
- health information