Large language model-augmented implicit surgical video review
Zheyuan Zhang, Muhammad Ibtsaam Qadir, Rushil Ramchand, Medha Belwadi, Ryan Patrick Ball, Kali Konstantinopoulos, Evan Mark Abbey, Kathleen T. Ernsberger, Michael J. Guzman, Samantha Hendren, Bryan K. Holcomb, Bruce W. Robb, Trista Stankowski, Joshua A. Waters, Dimitrios Stefanidis, Karl Y. Bilimori · 2026
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Description
Surgery leaves a video record, but the surgeon's spoken reasoning during the case is usually lost. Zheyuan Zhang and co-authors built a method to keep it, reported in a 2026 paper. Their system turns transcribed commentary into structured, machine-readable notes tied to moments in the video.
A large language model slices the transcript into feedback chunks and classifies each one, while eye-gaze or cursor tracking pins the chunk to the spot in the scene it concerns. On full-length bowel operations, the chunking matched human work closely, and the classification of observations agreed well with people. A safety checklist task in gallbladder surgery also scored strong agreement with expert raters. Users rated the system easy to work with. The authors aim it at training and quality review at scale.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Zheyuan Zhang, Muhammad Ibtsaam Qadir, Rushil Ramchand, Medha Belwadi, Ryan Patrick Ball, Kali Konstantinopoulos, Evan Mark Abbey, Kathleen T. Ernsberger, Michael J. Guzman, Samantha Hendren, Bryan K. Holcomb, Bruce W. Robb, Trista Stankowski, Joshua A. Waters, Dimitrios Stefanidis, Karl Y. Bilimori |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |