Things They Never Tell You About a Neurosurgeon

Failures linger longer than victories.
Your family sacrifices more than anyone sees.
Days off don’t turn the brain off - sleep becomes optional.
Patients stay in your mind long after they leave your hands.
The fear of losing your edge never fades.

AI edit vs original. The gap is getting real.

If/when this translates to medical imaging:
Segmentation: auto-separate background/foreground to segment tumors, ventricles, vessels, cranial nerves
Super-resolution
Artifact reduction
#AI #GeminiAI

This screenshot is from a 2024 Google Research post on Med-Gemini. It gets a CT head scan report almost right. It’s been a year and I don’t know how far this has moved since. But it looks very promising.

research.google/blog/advanci...

#AI #MedicalAI

Same prompt, three AI models: “Pituitary gland and adjacent structures.”

Amazing how different the outputs are. Only one resembles real anatomy. Shows both the potential and the current limits of AI in medical visualization.

#Neurosurgery #AI

The Imperial Skull Base Fellowship I am currently undertaking is now open for the next fellow. Excellent hands-on experience with great mentors. Highly recommend it.

www.nhsjobs.com/job/UK/Londo...

#SkullBase #Neurosurgery #Fellowship

Here’s our latest original research article in the BJNS : a longitudinal cohort study on the incidence and MRI-based diagnostic accuracy of neurovascular compression in trigeminal neuralgia.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#neurosurgery #research #trigeminalneuralgia #BJNS

Consider frailty status when planning meningioma surgery in the elderly.

Our new study shows that preoperative frailty is a strong predictor of postoperative outcomes, independent of age.

Read here 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Neurosurgery #Frailty #Geriatrics #Meningioma #NeuroOncology

Unusual, rare, and often overlooked - that is exactly why I believe in the power of a well-documented case report.

Our recent publication in Practical Neurology highlights a striking example: Skull base tuberculosis as a rare cause of occipital condyle syndrome.

pn.bmj.com/content/earl...

AI in research?

I was one of the 5,000 researchers who participated in this recent @nature.com survey on the use of AI in scientific writing and peer review.

Read the full article here:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

AI replacing surgeons? I doubt it—surgery is as much hands as it is minds, and that won't change in the next 20 years.