IEEE T-RO RAMI Special Issue

AIM AND SCOPE

Medical robotics has grown significantly over the last two decades, particularly for image-guided surgery. The rapid rise in attention towards human-like intelligence has spurred the development of advanced medical robotics, particularly in addressing complex decision-making challenges within dynamic medical environment. The integration of advanced medical imaging and robotic techniques holds great promise for creating autonomous medical robotic systems that enable precise clinical diagnosis, healthcare monitoring, optimal operation planning, and safety monitoring. Given the huge advances achieved in this area using various medical imaging modalities such as ultrasound, CT, MRI, laparoscopy, spectral imaging, and photoacoustic imaging, it is timely to have a special collection that summarizes recent advancements. This collection will explore how robotics can enhance medical imaging and how advanced medical imaging can expand the capabilities of robotics in tackling challenging and highly demanding clinical problems.

To highlight machine intelligence that understands physiology knowledge and can robustly work in unknown environments, the guest editors are particularly interested in fundamental research, such as investigating novel approaches of embodied intelligence, share-control, large language models, scene understanding, and learning from experts' experiences in the medical environment.