Computer Vision News - March 2022

27 Pier Giulianotti, UIC science is making continuous progress in this field. Our operations will be safer and more precise and minimize the suffering, pain, and negative consequences for our patients. We have to believe that. Humanity will define the priorities. Instead of spending trillions of dollars on developing nuclear bombs, maybe we can spend it on improving the quality of our world to allow people to have a better quality of life, including better surgery and better outcomes. help them make critical decisions, such as how close they are to a tumor to ensure the operation is within safe margins while sparing healthy liver or parenchyma. You founded the International School of Robotic Surgery in Chicago and are very active in the ClinicalRoboticSurgeryAssociation (CRSA). What can you tell us about those two organizations? We have opened up a new lab at the school in Chicago called the Surgical Innovation Training Laboratory (SITL). It is a very modern facilitywith a lot of equipment and connected with supercomputing centers like the Argonne National Laboratory. We offer training courses and are working on research to apply updated software to improve imaging and navigation. The CRSA was founded many years ago in Chicago and brings together robotic surgeons who all share the same vision that the future improvement of medicine is connected with the correct application of robotics and AI. They are committed to clinical research, developing the best techniques in multiple operations, and training and teaching younger generations to improve the application in the surgical ward. That is fascinating! Do you have a final message for the surgical robotics community? Keep going! Be optimistic that