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This Perspective describes the ecosystem of software available for the analysis of tissue images and discusses the need for interactive online guides that help histopathologists make complex images understandable to non-specialists.
This Perspective describes current clinical standards for intraoperative tissue analysis in oncology and discusses potential clinical implementations of intraoperative imaging for pathology-assisted surgery.
This Perspective argues that technologies for the neural interfacing of robotic devices with the body that have been clinically tested in humans should be leveraged toward the creation of a new generation of high-performance bionic limbs.