The aims of Computer Aided Surgery are to improve patient care by advancing the utilization of computers during treatment; to evaluate the benefits and risks associated with the integration of advanced digital technologies into surgical practice; to disseminate clinical and basic research relevant to stereotactic surgery, minimal access surgery, endoscopy, and surgical robotics; to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration between engineers and physicians in developing new concepts and applications; to educate clinicians about the principles and techniques of computer assisted surgery and therapeutics; and to serve the international scientific community as a medium for the transfer of new information relating to theory, research, and practice in biomedical imaging and the surgical specialties.

The scope of Computer Aided Surgery encompasses all fields within surgery, as well as biomedical imaging and instrumentation, and digital technology employed as an adjunct to imaging in diagnosis, therapeutics, and surgery. Topics featured include frameless as well as conventional stereotactic procedures, surgery guided by intraoperative ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging, image guided focused irradiation, robotic surgery, and any therapeutic interventions performed with the use of digital imaging technology.

Forthcoming meetings of interest

CARS 2008 Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 
22nd International Congress and Exhibition 
June 25 - 28, 2008
Barcelona, Spain
CALL FOR PAPERS 
www.cars-int.org 

Annual Congress of The British Society of Computer Aided Orthopaedic Surgery (CAOSUK 2008)
Glasgow, UK
February 7-9, 2008
http://www.caosuk.com