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. 2024:1462:11-20.
doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-64892-2_2.

Declaration of Computational Neurosurgery

Antonio Di Ieva  1   2   3 Eric Suero Molina  4   5   6 Margaret A Somerville  7   8 Amin Beheshti  9 Victor E Staartjes  10 Carlo Serra  10 Nicholas Theodore  11 James M Elliott  12 Evert O Wesselink  13 Carlo Russo  4 Julie G Pilitsis  14 Christine C Bennett  7 Shandong Wu  15 Flora M Hammond  16 Andres M Lozano  17   18 Michael D Cusimano  19 Jennilee M Davidson  4 James F Castellano  20 David O Okonkwo  21 Dooman Arefan  15 Cheng-Chia Lee  22 Olivier Zanier  10 Raffaele Da Mutten  10 Christian Matula  23 James T Rutka  24 Matthew Pease  25 Sidong Liu  4   26 Walter Stummer  6 Rita Matulionyte  27 Hongxi Yang  28 Chang Yuwen  29 Xuelian Cheng  30   31 Hengwei Fan  32 Xin Wang  32 Zongyuan Ge  28   33 Santiago Cepeda  34 Jason P Sheehan  35 Joseph Yuan-Mou Yang  36   37   38 Ryan P Hamer  39   40 Aaron Cohen-Gadol  41   25 Jordan R Hansford  42   43   44 Greg Savage  45 Paul F Sowman  46   47 Caleb Stewart  4   48 Babak Kateb  49   50   51   52 Camillo Sherif  53   54 Antonios Perperidis  55   56 Anna Guller  4   57   58 Simon Hanft  59 Randy S D'Amico  60 Aydin Sav  61 Cong Cong  4   26   62 Yang Song  62 Federico Nicolosi  63 Marcus K H Wiedmann  64 Damiano G Barone  65 Imran Noorani  66   67 John Magnussen  4 Sandro M Krieg  68 Torstein R Meling  69 Dirk De Ridder  70   71 Michael T Lawton  72 Jeffrey V Rosenfeld  73   74
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Declaration of Computational Neurosurgery

Antonio Di Ieva et al. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2024.

Abstract

Computational neurosurgery is a novel and disruptive field where artificial intelligence and computational modeling are used to improve the diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of patients affected by diseases of neurosurgical relevance. The field aims to bring new knowledge to clinical neurosciences and inform on the profound questions related to the human brain by applying augmented intelligence, where the power of artificial intelligence and computational inference can enhance human expertise. This transformative field requires the articulation of ethical considerations that will enable scientists, engineers, and clinical neuroscientists, including neurosurgeons, to ensure that the use of such a powerful application is conducted based on the highest moral and ethical standards with a patient-centric approach to predict and prevent mistakes. This declaration is a first attempt to draw a roadmap to guide the application of practical or applied ethics to computational neurosurgery. It is intended for the use of practitioners, ethicists, and scientists using artificial intelligence to understand and treat all the pathophysiological conditions related to the human brain.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence; Computational neurosurgery; Declaration; Ethics; Neurotechnology; Pillars.

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