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. 2020 May 15;8(5):e17647. doi: 10.2196/17647

Table 5.

Purchase intention and reasonable price to buy the artificial intelligence–based surgical assistant system.

Answers Total
(N=508), n (%)
Gynecologists
(N=278), n (%)
General surgeons
(N=173), n (%)
Urologists
(N=57), n (%)
P value
Purchase intention 423 (83.3) 222 (79.9) 151 (87.3) 50 (87.7) .08
Reason to buy the system





Comfort of laparoscopic surgery 257 (50.6) 142 (64.0) 84 (55.6) 31 (62.0) .27

Improved safety and maturity of laparoscopic surgery 245 (48.2) 126 (56.8) 85 (56.3) 34 (68.0) .31

Decreased number of assistants 204 (40.2) 101 (45.5) 75 (49.7) 28 (56.0) .37

Decreased burden of repetitive training for assistants 197 (38.8) 95 (42.8) 82 (54.3) 20 (4.0) .06

Reduced operation time 119 (23.4) 74 (33.3) 27 (17.9) 18 (36.0) .002

Improved convenience of research based on the autosave function 114 (22.4) 59 (26.6) 39 (25.8) 16 (32.0) .68
Reasonable price (US$)



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<30,000 87 (17.1) 61 (21.9) 21 (12.1) 5 (8.8)

30,000-50,000 151 (29.7) 83 (29.9) 53 (30.6) 15 (26.3)

50,000-100,000 139 (27.4) 77 (27.7) 43 (24.9) 19 (33.3)

100,000-150,000 79 (15.6) 33 (11.9) 36 (20.8) 10 (17.5)

150,000-200,000 28 (5.5) 11 (4.0) 13 (7.5) 4 (7.0)

≥200,000 24 (4.7) 13 (4.7) 7 (4.0) 4 (7.0)