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Fleur Fritz is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of surgical data science and machine learning, with a primary focus on **surgomics**—the extraction of predictive features from intraoperative data to personalize patient outcomes. Her major contribution lies in developing **active learning frameworks** that reduce the annotation burden on medical experts while maintaining high-quality data for training AI models. In her landmark 2023 study on robot-assisted minimally invasive esophagectomy, she demonstrated how surgomic features can be prospectively annotated to enable machine-learning-based prediction of surgical outcomes, a breakthrough that has already garnered **16 citations** and sparked interest in real-time surgical analytics. Fritz’s work is notable for bridging the gap between clinical workflow and computational efficiency, addressing a critical bottleneck in medical AI adoption. By designing annotation strategies that prioritize the most informative data points, she has laid the groundwork for scalable, expert-driven surgical intelligence. Her research not only advances personalized medicine but also empowers surgeons with actionable insights during complex procedures, marking her as a key innovator in the emerging field of surgical data science.