1. New technologies and medicine

1.1 Medical and technological background

Traditionally, there are two stages in the practice of medicine:

• the diagnostic stage to determine the presence of any pathologies;

• the step of performing a therapy adapted to the diagnosis.

The development of new technologies in medicine has considerably improved efficiency, but the use of increasingly complex systems also tends to make the practice of medicine more complicated. In particular, this complexity reinforces the importance of pre-operative planning and post-operative follow-up. For example (figure 1...