An AI system matched expert human reviewers in predicting patient recovery after prostate cancer surgery by analyzing surgeons’ movements during the procedure, according to a study published June 23 in npj Digital Medicine.
Researchers at Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai trained the AI system, called Frame-to-Outcome, on videos from 294 surgeries performed by 23 surgeons across four international centers, then tested it on an additional 29 surgeries.
Here are three notes from the study:
- The system analyzed video from the nerve-sparing portion of robot-assisted prostate surgery, when surgeons work to preserve nerves responsible for sexual function, and automatically identified patterns in surgical movements tied to patient outcomes.
- The system’s predictions of patient recovery closely matched those of expert human reviewers, without the labor-intensive manual review that type of analysis has traditionally required.
- The system also identified surgical patterns linked to erectile function recovery and could eventually provide surgeons with feedback on the surgical techniques linked to successful patient recovery, according to a July 23 news release from Cedars-Sinai.
Read the full study here.
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