Data compressing, data coding, and communications in object-oriented multimedia applications like telepresence, computer-aided medical diagnosis, or telesurgery require an enormous computing power—in the order of trillions of operations per second (TeraOPS). Compared with conventional digital technology, cellular neural/nonlinear network (CNN)-based computing is capable of realizing these TeraO...

Mobile-health (m-health) is described as the application of medical sensors and mobile computing to healthcare provision. While 5G networks can support a variety m-health services, applications such telesurgery, holographic communications, augmented/virtual reality are already emphasizing their limitations. These limitations apply both Quality Service (QoS) Experience (QoE). However, 6G predict...

Telemedicine describes the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for the delivery of medical services. It aims at equal access to medical expertise irrespective of the geographical location of the person in need. New developments in ICT have enabled the transmission of medical images in sufficiently high quality that allows for a reliable diagnosis to be determined by the expe...

Passivity is a very suitable tool to stabilize a telemanipulator; in fact, implementing each part of a telerobotic system as a passive system and interconnecting them in a power preserving way it is possible to achieve an intrinsically passive system which is consequently characterized by a stable behavior. In [1] scattering theory has been exploited to build a communication channel that is pas...

"The madman forces doors, the wise follow " Persian proverb In 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew non-stop across the Atlantic for the first time in history, aboard the " Spirit of St. Louis ". This pioneering feat took place from Paris to New York. It was in the same spirit of innovation and daring that the IRCAD/EITS (Institut de Recherche contre les Cancers de l'Appareil Digestif/European Institut...

During the past 50 years, techniques and results in surgery have advanced enormously. Heart and lung surgery is now routine and is becoming steadily less invasive. Stapling devices have improved the speed and reliability of gastrointestinal surgery, and minimally invasive techniques are routinely used in procedures ranging from adrenalectomy, through gastric bypass for obesity, to difficult her...

Telemedicine The use of information-based technologies and communications systems to deliver healthcare across geographic distances is termed telemedicine. Indeed, the history of telemedicine is the history of communications technology, specifically the advances made in this field in the second half of the 20th century. The practice of medicine through telecommunications as we know it today was...

out being hospitalized. More patients stay at home – or at least outside the reach of health-care providers – for self-treatment, in which they use medical devices, such as dialysis or insulin injector implants. Remote diagnosis and even treatment is already being applied for specific forms of illness, for example cardiac failure problems, in the sense of telemedicine or even telesurgery. Risks...

In the field of virtual reality and teleoperation, haptic interaction between human operator and a computer or telerobot plays an increasingly important role in performing delicate tasks, such as robotic telesurgery, virtual reality based training systems for surgery, virtual reality based rehabilitation systems (Dario et al, 2003) (Taylor, Stoianovici, 2003) (Popescu, et al, 2000), etc. These ...

As healthcare institutions expand and vertically integrate, healthcare delivery is less constrained by geography, nationality, or even by institutional boundaries. As part of this trend, some aspects of the healthcare process are shifted from medical centers back into the home and communities. Telehealth applications intended for health promotion, social services, and other activities—for the h...