Computer Assisted Surgery aims to improve patient care by advancing the utilization of computers during treatment; to evaluate the benefits and risks associated with the integration of advanced digital technologies into surgical practice; to disseminate clinical and basic research relevant to stereotactic surgery, minimal access surgery, endoscopy, and surgical robotics; to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration between engineers and physicians in developing new concepts and applications; to educate clinicians about the principles and techniques of computer assisted surgery and therapeutics; and to serve the international scientific community as a medium for the transfer of new information relating to theory, research, and practice in biomedical imaging and the surgical specialties.
　　计算机辅助手术旨在通过在治疗过程中提高计算机的利用率来改善患者护理；评估将先进数字技术融入手术实践的益处和风险；传播与立体定向手术、微创手术相关的临床和基础研究，内窥镜检查和外科机器人；鼓励工程师和医生在开发新概念和应用方面的跨学科合作；教育临床医生关于计算机辅助外科和治疗的原理和技术；以及服务于国际科学界作为新技术转移的媒介有关生物医学影像学和外科专业的理论、研究和实践的信息。