Clinical research is of keen interest to many surgeons at academic medical centers. It’s so important that most surgical trainees incorporate research years into their already years-long residencies to build their research capabilities and clinical skills. However, research initiatives are cumbersome and have long lead times. One key culprit is the availability of comprehensive, unbiased surgical data that can be easily analyzed to test hypotheses. 

A department at a large, US-based academic medical center was interested in studying the applicability of artificial intelligence (AI) within urology surgery. To accelerate their research in this area, they adopted Theator’s Surgical Intelligence Platform to facilitate research studies.