5 Topic Commentaries

AI could turn every surgical patient into an 'information donor'

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  Teodor Grantcharov, MD, PhD, FACS, FRCS (Glasg)

  General Surgery (minimally invasive and bariatric surgery); Surgical Safety

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  Stanford University School of Medicine and Stanford Health Care

  It's an autonomous system in the background that's running all the time.

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  Mary T. Hawn, MD, FACS

  General Surgery (minimally invasive foregut)

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  Stanford University

  These are data we just never have had before to actually understand what's going on,

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  S. Swaroop Vedula, MBBS, MPH, PhD

  Surgical Data Science; Surgery (training)

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  Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine

  We are going after algorithms that are built on collective intelligence of experiential knowledge and that we can make available to surgeons all over the world.

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  Jeff Siewerdsen, PhD

  Imaging Physics / Medical Physics; Surgical Process Modeling

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  The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

  We are working to bring data-intensive models and digital twins to improve safety and quality in cancer interventions,

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  Basel A. Sharaf, MD, DDS

  Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

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  Mayo Clinic

  VR and AR is really the future of surgery, and artificial intelligence is going to play a big role.

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