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ReviewJournal of personalized medicine2026

Artificial Intelligence in Minimally Invasive and Robotic Gastrointestinal Surgery: Major Applications and Recent Advances.

Matteo Pescio, Francesco Marzola, Giovanni Distefano, Pietro Leoncini, Carlo Alberto Ammirati, Federica Barontini, Giulio Dagnino, Alberto Arezzo

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Review in Journal of personalized medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Matteo PescioDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Università Degli Studi di Torino, Corso Dogliotti 14, 10126 Turin, Italy.ORCID 0009-0001-3035-1392
Francesco MarzolaDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Università Degli Studi di Torino, Corso Dogliotti 14, 10126 Turin, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9675-3220
Giovanni DistefanoDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Università Degli Studi di Torino, Corso Dogliotti 14, 10126 Turin, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1153-2067
Pietro LeonciniDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Università Degli Studi di Torino, Corso Dogliotti 14, 10126 Turin, Italy.ORCID 0009-0008-8785-1241
Carlo Alberto AmmiratiDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Università Degli Studi di Torino, Corso Dogliotti 14, 10126 Turin, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9892-4572
Federica BarontiniDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Università Degli Studi di Torino, Corso Dogliotti 14, 10126 Turin, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9088-3366
Giulio DagninoDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Università Degli Studi di Torino, Corso Dogliotti 14, 10126 Turin, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1613-1051
Alberto ArezzoDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Università Degli Studi di Torino, Corso Dogliotti 14, 10126 Turin, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2110-4082

Funding

European Research Council 101057321European Research Council 101092518European Research Council 101118626
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping gastrointestinal (GI) surgery by enhancing decision-making, intraoperative performance, and postoperative management. The integration of AI-driven systems is enabling more precise, data-informed, and personalized surgical interventions. This review provides a state-of-the-art overview of AI applications in GI surgery, organized into four key domains: surgical simulation, surgical computer vision, surgical data science, and surgical robot autonomy. A comprehensive narrative review of the literature was conducted, identifying relevant studies of technological developments in this field. In the domain of surgical simulation, AI enables virtual surgical planning and patient-specific digital twins for training and preoperative strategy. Surgical computer vision leverages AI to improve intraoperative scene understanding, anatomical segmentation, and workflow recognition. Surgical data science translates multimodal surgical data into predictive analytics and real-time decision support, enhancing safety and efficiency. Finally, surgical robot autonomy explores the progressive integration of AI for intelligent assistance and autonomous functions to augment human performance in minimally invasive and robotic procedures. Surgical AI has demonstrated significant potential across different domains, fostering precision, reproducibility, and personalization in GI surgery. Nevertheless, challenges remain in data quality, model generalizability, ethical governance, and clinical validation. Continued interdisciplinary collaboration will be crucial to translating AI from promising prototypes to routine, safe, and equitable surgical practice.

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computer vision in surgeryrobotic surgerysurgical AIsurgical data sciencesurgical innovationsurgical robot autonomysurgical simulation

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PMID41745364
PMCPMC12942361

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