Research & novelty
Evidence-first AI research stance.
The Veterinary Surgical Documentation System positions itself as systems research: offline multimodal capture, deterministic synthesis, and forensic documentation for veterinary surgery.
What is new
Technical novelty statements.
Offline multimodal documentation
Running vision, audio, and synthesis offline for surgical evidence is rare.
Forensic framing in veterinary medicine
Evidence treated like legal-grade documentation, not marketing copy.
Evidence-first AI design
Every output ties back to captured artifacts with hashes and schema versions.
What is not claimed
Explicit boundaries.
Not diagnostic
Veterinarians retain full clinical authority. The system documents evidence only.
Not predictive
No future-state modeling. Outputs reflect what occurred, not what may occur.
Not autonomous
Humans stay in-loop at every stage. No action is taken without operator approval.
No action inference
Surgical actions are not inferred, reconstructed, or generated from incomplete data.
No event reconstruction
Events not present in captured evidence are not reconstructed or estimated.
Research framing
Disciplinary positioning.
Systems research
Explores how deterministic systems capture multimodal evidence without cloud support.
Human-AI collaboration
AI documents context; clinicians retain decision-making authority.
Ethical AI design
Constraints, transparency, and auditability built into the product, not bolted on.
Need ethics or mission context? Mission
Validation
Testing scope and bounds.
Validation covered approximately 100 hours of total testing across single-camera and dual-camera configurations.
Test coverage
- Single-camera procedures across multiple durations.
- Dual-camera procedures with synchronized stream validation.
- Interruption and recovery testing, forced failures at various pipeline stages.
- Long-duration stability runs up to 4 hours.
Longest validated run
4-hour dual-camera procedure. Total processing time: approximately 25 minutes.
Processing occurred during surgery. Final packaging accounted for the remaining time after procedure end.