Cholecystectomy AI User Reviews

Response from developer

The app recognizes live videos as well. In fact, we recommend that you use live videos as the AI gets more context. Also, the app recognizes anatomy as well - gallbladder, cystic duct, CBD (when seen), duodenum and Rouviere’s sulcus. The app is not just about critical view. 63% critical view means it’s a pretty bad critical view. If you look at the app description, we don’t tell the app teaches you how to get or improve a critical view. You should get numbers close to 100%, ideally above 80-90%. You are supposed to know how to get a critical view as a surgeon. But we will tell you how to get it - by clearing more of the Calot’s triangle and more of the gallbladder off its bed so you see only two structures entering the gallbladder and no structure going from the gallbladder to the liver. We also say the app needs more data before it can perform better than experienced surgeons. But it still does a good job. Your comment is only a discouragement to emerging technologies. Apart from that, we did not realize there would be a need for the AI to help improve the critical view as we thought the surgeon should be able to figure this out. We will think of this as an interesting addition for subsequent versions, if others feel the same way. We have the capability to add this. Overall, this review poorly defines or evaluates the function of the app but we will let it stand to clear any misconceptions. BSE