1st Edition

Artificial Intelligence in Neurosurgery Translatable Technologies and Current Advances

Edited By Anand Veeravagu, Ethan Schonfeld Copyright 2027
236 Pages 23 Color & 7 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

236 Pages 23 Color & 7 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

The field of neurosurgery stands at the precipice of a transformative era, driven by the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI). From optimizing patient selection and surgical parameters to enhancing intraoperative precision, AI has already begun to reshape the landscape of neurosurgical care. Yet, as these technologies advance from preclinical studies to real-world applications, the... Read more

List of Contributors

Foreword

 

Chapter 1: Neurons to Networks – Introducing the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Modern Neurosurgery

Ethan Schonfeld and Anand Veeravagu

 

Chapter 2: Multimodal Foundation Models for Healthcare

Michihiro Yasunaga and Percy Liang

 

Chapter 3: From Data to Decisions: AI-Driven Outcome Prediction in Spine Surgery

Eunice Yang and Andrew K. Chan

 

Chapter 4: Outcome Prediction in Brain Surgery

Julian L. Gendreau, Amatya Bibhas, Ritvik Pulya, Kritika Gowda, Melanie Horowitz and Debraj Mukherjee

 

Chapter 5: Outcome Prediction in Neurosurgery: Liquid Biopsy and the Role of Machine Learning

Atharv Oak, Chetan Bettegowda and Christopher Douville

 

Chapter 6: Diagnostic Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Neuro Oncology

Ummey Hani, David J. Park and Steven D. Chang

 

Chapter 7: Detection and Diagnosis of Cerebrovascular Lesions Using Artificial Intelligence

Simon Levinson, Henk van Voorst and Jeremy J Heit

 

Chapter 8: Artificial Intelligence Usage by Robotics in Neurosurgery

Michael D. Monterey, Yassine Guennoun and Michael Y. Wang

 

Chapter 9: The Compass of the Future: Machine Learning-Guided Navigation in Spine Surgery

Rishi Jain, Dillan Prasad, Mehul Mittal, Nikhil Sriram, Joshua M. Tennyson, Noah B. Drewes, Sachin Govind, Christopher S. Ahuja, Nader S. Dahdaleh and Najib El Tecle

 

Chapter 10: Artificial Intelligence for Surgical Workflow Analysis

Danyal Z Khan and Hani J Marcus

 

Chapter 11: The Mind-Machine Interface

Benjamin C. Sherman, Paul M. Harary, Priya Bhanot and Vivek P. Buch

 

Chapter 12: Neurosurgical Sub-Task Automation

Heather Grimaudo, Jared Lawson, Nia Boles, Michael Longo, Nabil Simaan and Rohan Chitale

 

Chapter 13: Artificial Intelligence for Simulation and Neurosurgical Training

Andre A. Payman and Roberto Rodriguez Rubio

 

Chapter 14: Computer Vision in Neurosurgery

Jay J. Park, Michael Lee, Nehal Doiphode, Aaryan Shah, Tomasz Jan Zaluska, Audrey H. Limb, Advait Patil, Manuel Rebol, Simon Levinson and Vivek P. Buch

 

Chapter 15: Large Language Models in Neurosurgery

Sumedha Rai and Eric K Oermann

 

Chapter 16: Federated Learning in Neurosurgery

Akis Linardos, Ujjwal Baid, Sarthak Pati, Matthew W. Pease and Spyridon Bakas

 

Chapter 17: Policy Perspective on the Regulatory Landscape, Evaluation, and Translation of Artificial Intelligence for Neurosurgery

Samuel Browd

 

Chapter 18: Neurosurgical Data Sources and Data Needs for Artificial Intelligence

Maria Isabel Barros Guinle, Dhiraj Pangal, Maria José Cavagnaro, Thomas Johnstone and John K. Ratliff

 

Chapter 19: Current Challenges for Deep Learning Neurosurgery: Clinically Applicable Metrics and Domain Shift

Olivier Zanier, Lara M. Höbner, Raffaele Da Mutten, Luca Regli, Carlo Serra and Victor E. Staartjes

 

Chapter 20: Using Operating Room Audio and Video for Predictive Analytics

Recai Yilmaz, Dhiraj Pangal and Daniel Donoho

 

Chapter 21: Advancing Basic Laboratory Research by Artificial Intelligence

Arman Koul, Ethan Schonfeld and Anand Veeravagu

Biography

Anand Veeravagu, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery Department of Neurosurgery Stanford University School of Medicine

Dr. Veeravagu is an expert in the field of minimally invasive spine surgery and serves on national committees. He is the Director of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Neurosurgical Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Laboratory. He currently serves as the team neurosurgery for the San Francisco 49ers. He is a leader in the field, having edited and authored a textbook on Robotic and Navigated Spine Surgery.

 

Ethan Schonfeld is a medical student at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is a member of the Stanford Neurosurgical Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Laboratory. He has earned a master's degree at Stanford Medicine in Biomedical Informatics where his research was focused on the generation of synthetic imaging in neurosurgery. He has authored numerous journal articles and multiple textbook chapters on artificial intelligence in neurosurgery.