Computerized Practice
Computer Aided Surgery
The term Computer Aided Surgery (CAS) may be easily imagined from the term Computer Aided Design. Initially, CAS meant a technology of surgical simulation using three-dimensional organ models reconstructed medical imaging, by computer graphics technique. Nowadays, there are a lot of achievement of new surgery using technique such as robotics, optics or virtual reality.
Prof. Takeyoshi Dohi and Prof. Masakazu Tsuzuki at the University of Tokyo, Japan, were the first to use this term for a research they were working on together. In other countries, the term "Computer ASSISTED Surgery" is commonly used.