Medical Robotics and Systems
A special issue of Robotics (ISSN 2218-6581).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2014) | Viewed by 85634
Special Issue Editor
Interests: medical robotics; rehabilitation robotics; biomedical signal processing; learning and classification algorithms; robot vision: augmented and virtual reality
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We predict that technology assisted medicine (and robotics in particular) will have a significant impact over the next few decades. While already utilized in areas such as Cardiac surgery, Urology, Fetal Surgery, Pediatrics, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics and many other medical disciplines, robots will augment the surgeon’s senses (e.g., with haptics (feel), augmented reality (sight), ultrasound (sensing), etc.), motor performance and diagnosis capability.
Even with enormous technological gains, robotic surgery is still at its infancy. There are some major areas of technological improvement needed for this technology to reach its ultimate potential which include better visualization, tactile sensing, diagnostic sensing, human robot interfaces, and miniaturization among others.
Prof. Dr. Abhilash Pandya
Guest Editor
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Keywords
This special issue will focus on the latest advancements in robotic surgery and its associated leveraging areas. The main topics include, but are not limited to:
- Training/Simulation
- Design/validation/efficacy
- Simulation of procedures
- Physical modeling
- Human factors
- Robot-computer interfaces
- Capturing Surgeon intentions
- Visualization
- Augmented and Virtual reality
- Image Guidance/Virtual rails
- Imaging devices image
- data fusion
- Robotic/Sensor Integration
- Haptics
- Abnormality (e.g., Cancer) detection sensors
- Multi-modal sensor fusion
- Novel robotic designs/procedures
- Surgical Automation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Micro/Nano technologies
- Clinical applications
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