Natural Language Processing for Literature Search in Vascular Surgery: A Pilot Study Testing an Artificial Intelligence Based Application.

Introduction: The use of natural language processing (NLP) for a literature search has been poorly investigated in vascular surgery so far. The aim of this pilot study was to test the applicability of an artificial intelligence (AI) based mobile application for literature searching in a topic related to vascular surgery.

Technique: A focused scientific question was defined to evaluate the performance of the AI application for a literature search and compare the results with the ground truth provided via a traditional literature search performed by human experts.