Research Progress in AI for Robotic Surgery
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Intelligent Sensors".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2024 | Viewed by 1142
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computer-assisted interventions; surgical data science; surgical robotics; biomedical signal processing; sensor networks
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the previous three decades, robotic systems have transformed surgical practice, introducing manoeuvrability beyond human dexterity, and enabling surgical tasks to be carried out with enhanced precision and safety. Although many medical interventions are routinely carried out under robotic assistance, with tangible benefits, current platforms are passive machines fully controlled by, and dependent on, the manual skills of a human operator. With advances in digital technology underpinning the recording, curation, and processing of large volumes of data, considerable research efforts now focus on developing the next generation of intelligent surgical robotics, integrating increased levels of autonomy.
The proposed Special Issue will highlight recent progress in the integration of artificial intelligence with surgical robotic systems focusing on innovative methodologies on the application of AI to improve the navigation, efficiency, and overall clinical performance of robotic systems in surgical applications. We invite submissions presenting new and original research on topics including but not limited to the following fields:
- Intelligent control and visual servoing;
- Tracking and segmentation of surgical tools;
- Semantic detection and segmentation of anatomical targets;
- Depth estimation and 3D reconstruction of the surgical environment;
- Activity recognition and surgical workflow;
- Surgical skill analysis;
- Multimodal sensing and AI.
Dr. Evangelos Mazomenos
Dr. Yueming Jin
Guest Editors
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