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Table 2 Distribution of participants across willingness to pay categories

From: Robot-assisted surgery and artificial intelligence-based tumour diagnostics: social preferences with a representative cross-sectional survey

Preferred method

of surgery

Preferred method for the

radiological image assessment

WTP categories (EUR; range)

Surgeon

(N = 637)*

Robot-assisted (N = 762)

WTP categories (EUR; mean)

Radiologist (N = 928)*

AI

(N = 470)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

N (%)

0**

209(32.8)

238 (31.2)

0**

271 (29.2)

106 (22.5)

0–28

80 (12.6)

65 (8.5)

0–3

62 (6.7)

19 (4.0)

28–84

73 (11.5)

100(13.1)

3–14

82 (8.8)

43 (9.1)

84–140

91 (14.3)

117 (15.4)

14–42

163 (17.6)

78 (16.6)

140–280

94 (14.8)

120 (15.8)

42–70

114 (12.3)

56 (11.9)

280–560

53 (8.3)

74 (9.7)

70–98

97 (10.5)

70 (14.9)

560–1120

19 (3.0)

33 (4.3)

98–280

107 (11.5)

73 (15.5)

1120–2240

12 (1.9)

14 (1.8)

280–839

32 (3.5)

25 (5.3)

> 2240

6 (1.0)

1 (0.1)

> 839

0 (0)

0 (0)

  1. Conversion: 1 EUR = 357.49 HUF
  2. *There was a missing value for one respondent
  3. **The 0 category represents no willingness to pay