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Cloud Computing for Robotics and Surgery

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This chapter is intended to be an introduction to cloud computing for surgeons and noncomputer scientists. In addition to presenting a modern history of the cloud, it explores theoretical concepts of applying cloud computer systems to next-generation medical robots and operating room infrastructures. It explains how the cloud is suited for high-scale computational tasks necessary for the integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning into tomorrow’s surgical suite and how it will provide a framework for digital surgery. Machine learning via the cloud versus single machine learning is also addressed.

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Atallah, A.B., Atallah, S. (2021). Cloud Computing for Robotics and Surgery. In: Atallah, S. (eds) Digital Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49100-0_4

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