Dr. Amin Madani is the director of the Surgical AI Research Academy (SARA) at the University Health Network (UHN). He is an endocrine and acute care surgeon at UHN and assistant professor of surgery at the University of Toronto. Dr. Madani talked to us and showed us some of the work he is doing on AI in surgery and in particular on computer vision. He really breaks down for us the terms AI, machine learning, and data science, and highlighted some of the promise and challenges for AI in surgery.
Email Dr. Madani: amin.madani@uhn.ca
Watch full unedited interview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/aawdQy90v2Q
Links:
1. https://temertysimcentre.com/surgical-artificial-intelligence-research-academy-sara/
2. Video of Go No Go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmcW8JK1Qv4
3. Surgical Data Science: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9135051/
4. Artificial Intelligence for Intraoperative Guidance: Using Semantic Segmentation to Identify Surgical Anatomy During Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33196488/
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