Challenges and Opportunities in Application of Laparoscopic, Robotic and Other Technological Advances in Gastrointestinal Surgery
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "General Surgery".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 65
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Surgical Oncology, Robotic and HPB Surgery, University Hospital of Alessandria, 51121 Alessandria, Italy
Interests: HPB surgery; robotic surgery; laparoscopic surgery; surgical oncology
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2. Department of Surgical Oncology, Robotic and HPB Surgery, University Hospital of Alessandria, 51121 Alessandria, Italy
Interests: HPB surgery; robotic surgery; surgical oncology; liver transplant; transplant oncology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has achieved rapid development and has been widely applied in all surgical fields. Both medical and surgical research have tremendously improved the outcomes of minimally invasive surgery and have paved the way for the further development of robotic surgery and other technological innovations. Such technologies have shown the potential for reducing recovery time, improving surgical outcomes, speeding up patient healing, and improving cosmetic outcomes.
Furthermore, MIS generates a considerable amount of data that can be processed by artificial intelligence (AI), including data about the preoperative (clinical, laboratory, imaging, etc.), intraoperative (surgical navigation, video records, etc.), and postoperative outcomes. The processing and analysis of surgical data is a continuously evolving research field in both the academic and clinical worlds, with the potential to impact preoperative planning, postoperative management, and also training, simulation, and intraoperative decision-making.
This Special Issue is the ideal target for authors who wish to contribute to the growing evidence about minimally invasive surgery, including surgical robotics and the application of artificial intelligence in surgery.
Submission of high-quality papers in these fields will be considered.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Robotic surgery;
- Laparoscopic surgery;
- Preoperative design and intraoperative navigation of minimally invasive surgery;
- Augmented and mixed reality in surgery;
- Application of artifical intelligence in surgery.
Dr. Gianluca Cassese
Prof. Dr. Fabrizio Panaro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- robotic surgery
- laparoscopic surgery
- artificial intelligence
- technological advances
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