Comment on "Natural Language Processing in Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis"

Roi Anteby¹, Shelly Soffer², Ido Nachmany^{3

2}, Eyal Klang^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
³ Department of Surgery, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
⁴ Deep Vision Lab, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel.
⁵ Department of Diagnostic Imaging, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

Comment

Roi Anteby et al. Ann Surg. 2021.

. 2021 Dec 1;274(6):e941-e942.

doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000004939.

Roi Anteby¹, Shelly Soffer², Ido Nachmany^{3

2}, Eyal Klang^{2

4

5}

¹ Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
³ Department of Surgery, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
⁴ Deep Vision Lab, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel.
⁵ Department of Diagnostic Imaging, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors report no conflicts of interest.

Natural Language Processing in Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
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