Teaming with artificial intelligence to support global cancer surgical care

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) and global surgery would seem to make an unlikely pairing.AI produces a futuristic vision of robots performing surgery, computers acting as radiologists, and biometric scanners making real-time diagnoses.Global surgery evokes images of tropical medicine, delivering care in settings with limited resources and working without access to the most up-to-date technologies.In some ways, however, these percep-