**4.1 Intraoperative pathology and histology determination**

Clinical algorithms based on AI/ML have the potential to be highly helpful when healthcare professionals must quickly "make sense of" large amounts of aggregate/ consolidated data, including text-based content [54–56]. One of the fields within the broader domain of "AI" that has gained particular interest in recent years is the socalled "computer vision" [57, 58]. Advancements in computer vision have been applied to object recognition, facial recognition, and action recognition, and potential applications of this technology in the area of surgery and related specialties are readily apparent [59]. This includes the use of AI to interpret radiologic imaging and a
