Study: Artificial Intelligence surpasses surgeons in writing medical reports

A recent study showed that artificial intelligence enables computers to follow the surgeons, perform operations and then write to -surgery notes, which are more accurate than doctors themselves can write. In a report on the study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, the researchers indicated that writing surgical notes, reports that document the details of the surgical procedure, are boring and often contagious and incomplete information. The researchers wrote in the report: “Surgical reports are not only easy to communicate between healthcare providers, but also provide a basis for identifying diagnosis, medical tests and treatment, and is used to calibrate the quality of surgery, enable surgical research efforts and to follow the organizational requirements and guidelines based on evidence.” They added: “It can be said that this is the most important document in the entire operation.” With the help of artificial intelligence technology, the researchers trained the “computer vision” systems to discover the behavior of surgeons in video clips of the help of robots to remove the prostate. Each step is possible from the process, such as removing the lymph nodes or connecting the veins, the researchers wrote a pre -prescribed text, and while the artificial intelligence system “looked”, the video recording discovered the steps of the surgeon and collected the text in a narrative surgical report. When the researchers tested the system with the help of video clips about 158 ​​right cases, 53% of the reports written by surgeons contain contradictions, compared to 29% of the artificial intelligence report, according to a team of auditors. Major contradictions are capable of finding the procedures included in the video clips, which may later be important to care for the patient, in 27% of the reports of the surgeons, and only 13% of the artificial intelligence reports. The researchers said that the new technology with more tests has the ability to “reduce the burden of documentation, improve the accuracy of surgical reports, increase surgical transparency and reduce the inertia of surgical documentation.”