• World Neurosurg · Jun 2024

    Opportunities and Considerations for the Incorporation of Artificial Intelligence into Global Neurosurgery: A Generative Pre-Trained Transformer Chatbot-Based Approach.

    • Nathan A Shlobin and Gail Rosseau.
    • Department of Neurological Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Electronic address: nathan.shlobin@northwestern.edu.
    • World Neurosurg. 2024 Jun 1; 186: e398e412e398-e412.

    ObjectiveGlobal neurosurgery is a public health focus in neurosurgery that seeks to ensure safe, timely, and affordable neurosurgical care to all individuals worldwide. Although investigators have begun to explore the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) for neurosurgery, its applicability to global neurosurgery has been largely hypothetical. We characterize opportunities and considerations for the incorporation of AI into global neurosurgery by synthesizing key themes yielded from a series of generative pretrained transformers (GPTs), discuss important limitations of GPTs and cautions when using AI in neurosurgery, and develop a framework for the equitable incorporation of AI into global neurosurgery.MethodsChatGPT, Bing Chat/Copilot, You, Perplexity.ai, and Google Bard were queried with the prompt "How can AI be incorporated into global neurosurgery?" A layered ChatGPT-based thematic analysis was performed. The authors synthesized the results into opportunities and considerations for the incorporation of AI in global neurosurgery. A Pareto analysis was conducted to determine common themes.ResultsEight opportunities and 14 important considerations were synthesized. Six opportunities related to patient care, 1 to education, and another to public health planning. Four of the important considerations were deemed specific to global neurosurgery. The Pareto analysis included all 8 opportunities and 5 considerations.ConclusionsAI may be incorporated into global neurosurgery in a variety of capacities requiring numerous considerations. The framework presented in this manuscript may facilitate the incorporation of AI into global neurosurgery initiatives while balancing contextual factors and the reality of limited resources.Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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