Preface

The Rehabilitation and the Robotics: Are They Going Together Well?

“…Rehabilitation supported by the use of robotic systems can have numerous advantages [ 4 ]. In particular, it allows more intensive and tailored to the patient rehabilitation activities and services (increasing the amount and quality of therapy that can be administered) and allows all the involved actors in the team (e.g., physiotherapists, physicians, bioengineers and other figures) to set and manage some work parameters to make the rehabilitation specific and optimal for the patient (the type of exercise, the level of assistance from the robot, the force and the kinematic that the patient must exert, following the exercize).…”

“…In these systems the number of degrees of freedom is equal to that of the joints on which the rehabilitation therapy must intervene based on the objectives. Regarding the rehabilitation of the lower limbs [ 4 ] we refer to class 1 exoskeletal systems in reference to nonportable robotic systems. Class 1 belong to those nonportable robotic systems consisting of a robotic exoskeleton.…”

“…Class 1 belong to those nonportable robotic systems consisting of a robotic exoskeleton. In some cases there is also a body weight support (BWS) [ 4 ] type system distributed over the whole body for weight relief, a conveyor belt and a control information system including biofeedback response systems based on virtual reality. These systems are naturally used only in the clinic and partly constitute an evolution of pure BWS systems.…”

“…Some of these directions that more directly relate with motion rehabilitation [ 4 , 10 , 11 ] are: To assess the effects of using robots at different phases of recovery. To develop wearable robots easy and practical to wear and remove.…”

The Artificial Intelligence in Digital Pathology and Digital Radiology: Where Are We?

“…As far as artificial reality is concerned, we are seeing more and more applications of augmented and/or virtual reality. For example, in [ 5 , 6 ], they are some available ones that use the DICOM file from computed tomography) and/or magnetic resonance imaging to return to the surgeon on support augmented reality viewers during an operation (as for a fighter pilot), for example, the exact placement of blood vessels or a nerve. Virtual reality applications in the so-called virtual colonoscopy or in all those endo-cavitary diagnostic applications, where it is possible to create a real virtual journey (thanks to the processing of voxels starting from the file saved in DICOM), are now routine.…”