Image-Based AI-Robot Control in Surgical Applications

Abstract

There has been much interest in the surgical robotics community in the use of image-based strategies for robot control. Especially in the surgical context, images are the main source of information for autonomous control. In this work, we summarize the occurrence of so-called AI-based methods in commercial and research-oriented surgical robotics systems. We discuss the current state of research in the field, open challenges, and provide some directions for further research that have been impactful in related fields.