Perspectives on Surgical Data Science
  The availability of large amounts of data together with advances in analytical techniques afford an opportunity to address difficult challenges in ensuring that healthcare is safe, effective, efficient, patient-centered, equitable, and timely. Surgical care and training stand to tremendously gain through surgical data science. Herein, we discuss a few perspectives on the scope and objectives for surgical data science. 
S. Swaroop Vedula, Masaru Ishii, Gregory D. Hager
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