Optimizing intraoperative AI: evaluation of YOLOv8 for real-time recognition of robotic and laparoscopic instruments.

YOLOv8 exhibited superior recognition performance for robotic instruments compared to laparoscopic tools, a difference likely attributed to the greater representation of robotic instruments in the training set, and the model's rapid inference speed of 1.12 milliseconds per frame highlights its suitability for real-time clinical applications.