Computer aided surgery in the 21st century

Abstract

Realization of new surgical treatment in the 21st century, it is necessary to use various advanced technologies; surgical robots, three-dimensional medical images, computer graphics, computer simulation technology and others. Threedimensional medical image for surgical operation provides surgeons with advanced vision. A surgical robot provides surgeons with advanced hand, but it is not a machine to do the same action of a surgeon using scissors or a scalpel. The advanced vision and hands available to surgeons are creating new surgical fields, which are minimally invasive surgery, noninvasive surgery, virtual reality microsurgery, tele-surgery, fetus surgery, neuro-informatics surgery and others in the 21st century.