Declaration of Computational Neurosurgery.

Journal: Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Published Date: Jan 1, 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.

Authors

  • Antonio Di Ieva
    Neurosurgery Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
  • Eric Suero Molina
    Computational NeuroSurgery (CNS) Lab, Macquarie Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Human and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
  • Margaret A Somerville
    School of Medicine, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia. margaret.somerville@nd.edu.au.
  • Amin Beheshti
    Department of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
  • Victor E Staartjes
    Department of Neurosurgery, Bergman Clinics, Naarden, The Netherlands; and.
  • Carlo Serra
    1Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Neuroscience Center, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Nicholas Theodore
    Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Orthopaedic Surgery & Biomedical Engineering, Department of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: theodore@jhmi.edu.
  • James M Elliott
    Department of Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
  • Evert O Wesselink
    Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Carlo Russo
    Computational NeuroSurgery (CNS) Lab, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
  • Julie G Pilitsis
  • Christine C Bennett
    School of Medicine, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
  • Shandong Wu
    Intelligent Systems Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
  • Flora M Hammond
    Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
  • Andres M Lozano
    Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. lozano@uhnresearch.ca.
  • Michael D Cusimano
    Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Division of Neurosurgery, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Neuroscience Research Program, Keenan Research Centre of the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: injuryprevention@smh.ca.
  • Jennilee M Davidson
    Computational NeuroSurgery (CNS) Lab, Macquarie Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Human and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
  • James F Castellano
    Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  • David O Okonkwo
    From the Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa (M.P., A.P., K.H., E.N., S.R., S.C., D.O.O.); Departments of Radiology (D.A., S.W.), Biomedical Informatics (S.W.), and Bioengineering (S.W.), and Intelligent Systems Program (S.W.), University of Pittsburgh, 3240 Craft Pl, Room 322, Pittsburgh, PA 15213; Department of Neurosurgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash (J.B., N.T.); Department of Radiology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif (E.Y.).
  • Dooman Arefan
    Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
  • Cheng-Chia Lee
    Department of Neurosurgery, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan; Brain Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
  • Olivier Zanier
    Machine Intelligence in Clinical Neuroscience (MICN) Laboratory, Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Neuroscience Center, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Frauenklinikstrasse 10, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Raffaele Da Mutten
    Machine Intelligence in Clinical Neuroscience (MICN) Laboratory, Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Neuroscience Center, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Frauenklinikstrasse 10, 8091, Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Christian Matula
    Department of Neurosurgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
  • James T Rutka
    Division of Neurosurgery, Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • Matthew Pease
    Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
  • Sidong Liu
    Save Sight Institute, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia; Brain and Mind Centre, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
  • Walter Stummer
    Department of Neurosurgery, Westfälische Wilhelms-University Muenster and University Hospital Muenster, Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, 48149, Muenster, Germany.
  • Rita Matulionyte
    Senior Lecturer, Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University.
  • Hongxi Yang
    Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI), Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.
  • Chang Yuwen
    National Engineering Laboratory for Integrated Aero-Space-Ground-Ocean Big Data Application Technology, School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China; Centre for Multidisciplinary Convergence Computing (CMCC), School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China.
  • Xuelian Cheng
    Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI), Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.
  • Hengwei Fan
    1Spine Center, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
  • Xin Wang
    Key Laboratory of Bio-based Material Science & Technology (Northeast Forestry University), Ministry of Education, Harbin 150040, China.
  • Zongyuan Ge
    AIM for Health Lab, Faculty of IT, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia; Monash-Airdoc Research Lab, Faculty of IT, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
  • Santiago Cepeda
    Neurosurgery Department, Rio Hortega University Hospital, 47012 Valladolid, Spain.
  • Jason P Sheehan
    Department of Neurosurgery, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
  • Joseph Yuan-Mou Yang
    Neuroscience Advanced Clinical Imaging Service (NACIS), Department of Neurosurgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
  • Ryan P Hamer
    Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
  • Aaron Cohen-Gadol
    Department of Neurological Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
  • Jordan R Hansford
    Michael Rice Centre for Haematology and Oncology, Women's and Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, SA, Australia.
  • Greg Savage
    School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
  • Paul F Sowman
    School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.
  • Caleb Stewart
    Department of Neurosurgery, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA.
  • Babak Kateb
    National Center for NanoBioElectronics, Brain Mapping Foundation, Brain Technology and Innovation Park, Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics, Pacific Palisades, California 90272, United States.
  • Camillo Sherif
    Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences; Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital St. Pölten; Cerebrovascular Research Group, Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital St. Pölten, Sankt Poelten, Austria.
  • Antonios Perperidis
    Australian Institute for Machine Learning, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
  • Anna Guller
    Computational NeuroSurgery (CNS) Lab, Macquarie Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Human and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
  • Simon Hanft
    Department of Neurosurgery, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA.
  • Randy S D'Amico
    Neurological Surgery, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, USA.
  • Aydin Sav
    Department of Medical Pathology, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Cong Cong
    Computational NeuroSurgery (CNS) Lab, Macquarie Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Human and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
  • Yang Song
    Biomedical and Multimedia Information Technology (BMIT) Research Group, School of IT, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Electronic address: yson1723@uni.sydney.edu.au.
  • Federico Nicolosi
    Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
  • Marcus K H Wiedmann
    Deparment of Neurosurgery, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
  • Damiano G Barone
    Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
  • Imran Noorani
    Department of Neurosurgery, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK.
  • John Magnussen
    Computational NeuroSurgery (CNS) Lab, Macquarie Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Human and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
  • Sandro M Krieg
    Klinik und Poliklinik für Neurochirurgie, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Ismaninger Str. 22, 81675, München, Deutschland. sandro.krieg@tum.de.
  • Torstein R Meling
  • Dirk De Ridder
    Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Neurosurgery, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Electronic address: dirk.deridder@otago.ac.nz.
  • Michael T Lawton
    Department of Neurosurgery, c/o Neuroscience Publications, Barrow Neurological Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, 350 West Thomas Road, Phoenix, AZ 85013, USA. Electronic address: Neuropub@barrowneuro.org.
  • Jeffrey V Rosenfeld
    Department of Neurosurgery, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.

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