Current Clinical Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Shoulder Surgery: What the Busy Shoulder Surgeon Needs to Know and What’s Coming Next

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a continuously expanding field with the potential to transform a variety of industries -including healthcare- by providing automation, efficiency, precision, accuracy, and decision-making support for simple and complex tasks. Basic knowledge of the key features as well as limitations of AI is paramount to understand current developments in this field and to successfully apply them to shoulder surgery. The purpose of the present review is to provide an overview of artificial intelligence within orthopedics and shoulder surgery exploring current and forthcoming AI applications.
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Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Deep learning, Shoulder surgery, decision-making, Computer vision, Preoperative planning
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