About this journal

Aims and scope

Computer Assisted Surgery is an online, open access, international journal publishing original research and reviews on the central role of digital technologies in surgery, therapy and medical interventions. All aspects of the treatment process are addressed with the key aim of improving patient care, from basic research and surgical strategy planning to guidance and post-operative assessment, including surgical skill evaluation and training.

Computer Assisted Surgery provides an interdisciplinary forum for scientists, engineers and physicians to present and validate new concepts and integration of new technologies into clinical workflows, and for clinicians to stay abreast of the latest principles and techniques.

These are key focus areas for the journal:

• Image guided surgery and interventional imaging systems
• Surgical robotics and instrumentation
• Minimal access surgery
• Endoscopy
• Radiation therapy and interventional radiology
• Virtual and augmented reality for planning and guidance
• Surgical data science and artificial intelligence
• Surgical simulation for training and skill analysis
• Economic, societal, ethical and policy issues surrounding computer assisted technologies

Computer Assisted Surgery publishes original research articles including position papers and white papers, reviews, and brief reports.

Peer Review Statement
Submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor-in-Chief and, if found suitable for further consideration, to single anonymized peer review by independent, expert referees.

Journal metrics

Usage

  • 122K annual downloads/views

Citation metrics

  • 1.5 (2023) Impact Factor
  • 3.0 (2023) 5 year IF
  • 2.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
  • Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
  • 0.546 (2023) SNIP
  • 0.297 (2023) SJR

Speed/acceptance

  • 44 days avg. from submission to first decision
  • 34% acceptance rate

Editorial board

Editorial office:
[email protected]

Editor-in-Chief:
Pierre Jannin, Ph.D, INSERM, University of Rennes, Rennes, France ( https://medicis.univ-rennes1.fr/)

Associate Editors:
Xiaojun Chen, Ph.D. Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Louis Collins, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Guillaume Dardenne, Ph.D., University Hospital of Brest (CHU Brest), France 

Qi Dou, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

Caroline Essert, Ph.D. Associate Professor, University of Strasbourg / ICUBE lab, France

Daniel Hashimoto, M.D., M.S. Instructor, Department of Surgery, UH Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA

Makoto Hashizume, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S. Professor Emeritus, Kyushu University, Japan

Jaesung Hong, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Robotics Engineering, DGIST, Daegu, South Korea

Leo Joskowicz, Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

Marta Kersten-Oertel, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept. Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Shlomi Laufer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Hongen Liao, Ph.D. Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Cristian A. Linte, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

Mamoru Mitsuishi, Ph.D. Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Kensaku Mori, Ph.D. Director of Information Technology Center and Director of Strategy Office, Information and Communications, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Japan

Parvin Mousavi, Ph.D. Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Arya Nabavi, M.D., Ph.D., Ma.H.M., I.F.A.A.N.S. Director, Department of Neurosurgery, KRH Klinikum Nordstadt, Hannover, Germany

David Putzer, M.Sc., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Experimental Orthopedics, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria

Klaus Radermacher, Ph.D. Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Stefanie Speidel, Head of Translational Surgical Oncology, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT/UCC), Dresden, Germany

Danail Stoyanov, E.Eng., Ph.D. Director, Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional & Surgical Sciences (WEISS); Professor of Robot Vision, UCL Department of Computer Science, London, UK

Russell H. Taylor, Ph.D. John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Sandrine Voros, TIMC-IMAG, CAMI group, Pavillon Taillefer, Faculté de Médecine, La Tronche, France

Guoyan Zheng, M.S., Ph.D. Director, Center for Robot Vision and Image Guidance; Deputy Dean, Institute of Medical Robotics, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

Advisory Board:

Nicholas Ayache, Ph.D. French Research Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Sophia-Antipolis, France

Adrian Park, M.D., F.R.C.S.C., F.A.C.S., F.C.S.(E.C.S.A.) Chairman, Department of Surgery, Anne Arundel Health System, Annapolis, MD, USA; Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Frederic Picard, M.D., F.R.C.S. Orthopaedics, Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow, UK

Carla M Pugh, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Surgery; Director of the Technology Enabled Clinical Improvement (TECI) Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA

Abstracting and indexing

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Current Contents / Clinical Medicine; EMBASE/Excerpta Medica; Med Index; Medicus/MEDLINE; Modern Medicine; Science Citation Index Expanded; DOAJ.

Open access

Computer Assisted Surgery is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.

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  3. Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

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