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. 2016 Apr 20;11(4):e0151470. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0151470

Fig 2. Data extraction and analysis flow from the FDA MAUDE database.

Fig 2

The dictionaries of keywords for surgery types/specialties and surgical instruments were constructed based on the online information available on the da Vinci surgeries [32] and instruments catalog [33] from the manufacturer. The analysis tool was developed using open-source Python libraries for natural language processing, data analysis, and machine learning.