Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Ureteral Identification: A New Surgical Frontier.

The New Technology Report by Narihiro et al1 is of great interest and describes the development of a real-time ureteral identification machine learning model to assist laparoscopic colorectal resection. This is the first article published in Diseases of the Colon & Rectum that describes how a deep learning model was developed for anatomic landmark identification specifically during routine laparoscopic colorectal resections.