Challenges, Emerging Technologies, and Future Trends of Robotic Surgery
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomedical Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 991
Special Issue Editors
Interests: medical robotics; electrical bio-impedance; compliant mechanisms
Interests: computer vision; robot programming; learning from demonstration; deep learning
Interests: computer vision; surgical vision; surgical data science; medical imaging; geometric understanding; image registration; surgical robotics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
About 30 years ago, the robot was introduced for the first time to the operating suite for taking care of simple tasks. After 30 years of developments, nowadays, different types of surgical robots have been built and served in almost all types of surgery. In the future, surgical robots can continue being improved by leveraging the technological developments and the use of core technologies, such as computer vision, sensors and Artificial Intelligence (AI), to develop more reliable capabilities of assisting and interacting with surgeons in a more intuitive way. The debate over autonomous surgery has been on-going since the development of the first surgical robots. On one side, there are arguments towards keeping the control of the procedures in the hands of the surgeon, including concerns regarding safety and legal responsibility for the procedures. On the other side, robots are capable of executing more precise and delicate tasks than humans, and AI is enabling them to take more active roles in decision making during surgery.
In this special issue, we invite papers related to the recent technological advancements and clinical challenges of robotic surgery. In particular, we are seeking articles that fall within, but are not limited to, the following topics: describing the latest developments in robot-assisted surgery, novel sensory setups, computer vision methodologies and image-guided devices, AI approaches and mechanical design applied in robotic surgery. In addition, the incorporation of artificial intelligence empowers surgeons and robots in more complex procedures, evoking new opportunities, applications, and challenges. This special issue also welcomes contributions concerning technologies, ethical regulations in clinical procedures, training or educational systems for surgery, and review papers on relevant aspects or viewpoints on future perspectives.
Topics include, but not limited to:
- Modelling, control, and design of surgical robots;
- Sensors and instrumentation for robotic surgery;
- Tool–tissue interaction and manipulation;
- Machine vision and image-guided surgery;
- Surgical data science;
- Machine learning and AI for sensory data analysis and validation;
- Surgical workflow, action, activity, and gesture recognition in surgery and OR;
- Surgical navigation and augmented reality;
- Educational platforms for training and surgical skill assessment;
- Advanced user interface, human–robot interaction, and clinical translation;
- Ethical regulation;
- Review of technical solutions for the current challenges and future trends of robotic surgery.
Dr. Zhuoqi Cheng
Prof. Dr. Thiusius Rajeeth Savarimuthu
Dr. Sophia Bano
Dr. Maria Koskinopoulou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- surgical robotics
- surgical data science
- surgical modelling
- human robot interaction
- image-guided surgery
- machine learning
