Technical practice and development direction of minimally invasive gastric surgery in digital medicine era

After nearly 30 years of high‑speed development of minimally invasive gastric surgery in China, the surgical techniques are well developed. The concept of gastric cancer treatment is constantly changing as the deepening understanding of gastric cancer. Minimally invasiveness and precision is an inevitable trend in gastric surgery. At the same time, science and technology are fast‑evolving, which greatly improved the performance of both soft‑ and hardware. In the future, surgical technology, real‑time data and artificial intelligence will be further integrated to facilitate the evolution of minimally invasive surgery to digital surgery era. Therefore, in this article, the authors elaborate on the technical practice and future directions of minimally invasive surgery in this digital medicine era from technology and scientific progress.