Computer- and robot-assisted Medical Intervention

TL;DR

This paper reviews the role of computer- and robot-assisted systems in medical interventions, discussing their components, design paradigms, current systems, and future trends, with a detailed case study.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of medical robotics, highlighting recent developments, design approaches, and future directions in computer-assisted medical interventions.

Findings

Overview of existing medical robotic systems

Discussion of evolving design and control paradigms

Future trends and ongoing developments in medical robotics

Abstract

Medical robotics includes assistive devices used by the physician in order to make his/her diagnostic or therapeutic practices easier and more efficient. This chapter focuses on such systems. It introduces the general field of Computer-Assisted Medical Interventions, its aims, its different components and describes the place of robots in that context. The evolutions in terms of general design and control paradigms in the development of medical robots are presented and issues specific to that application domain are discussed. A view of existing systems, on-going developments and future trends is given. A case-study is detailed. Other types of robotic help in the medical environment (such as for assisting a handicapped person, for rehabilitation of a patient or for replacement of some damaged/suppressed limbs or organs) are out of the scope of this chapter.