Advantages of 3D Printing for Gynecology and Obstetrics: Brief Review of Applications, Technologies, and Prospects

Industry 4.0 and Digitalisation in Healthcare

“…Modern medical treatments cannot achieve their full potential without using advanced computing technologies. AI technologies are fundamentally changing the global healthcare system, allowing a radical redesign of the system of medical diagnostics, the development of new drugs, advanced analysis, testing, and treatment to enable advances in the field of transplantation surgeries [ 50 , 51 , 120 , 121 ]. Computational simulation using finite element analysis (FEA) is a crucial part of the digitalisation process in medicine [ 122 , 123 ].…”

“…It is especially relevant for cases involving tumours, including hard cancer pathologies. The main points of extreme importance in this regard are timely diagnosis and accurate choice of treatment [ 50 , 121 , 139 ].…”

“…BDA is advantageous for genetic analysis to compute genetic pathology and generate possible problem-oriented knowledge [ 121 , 140 ]. It should be considered that even superfast computers may take hours to do an intense data analysis which can now be accelerated using GPU computing [ 141 ].…”

“…Researchers and medicinal chemists work together to identify problematic issues and create more proficient models for newer drug design [ 143 ]. Advances in interdisciplinary fields that combine computational and genomic technologies are expected to lead to newer horizons in personalized medicine [ 121 , 140 , 144 , 145 ].…”

“…3D printing is used for additive manufacturing of patient-specific metal/ceramics implants; for stereolithography of drug delivery systems; for polymer/metal-based individual prosthesis; and for individual surgeons’ tool designs [ 121 ].…”