Professor Yan Liu, a professor of computer science, electrical and computer engineering and biomedical sciences, was inspired to use her skills to help those suffering from prostate cancer after her father was diagnosed with the disease. She teamed up with Dr. Andrew Hung, a urologist at Keck Medicine of USC, to create AI tools that measure and help improve surgeons’ technical skills during the radical prostatectomy procedure. By harnessing deep learning algorithms, their system learns from past movements to identify specific areas where a surgeon can improve during a robotic surgery. They are currently working on developing an AI-based system to deliver real-time feedback during a procedure and even alert surgeons if they are at risk of erring.
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