Title
Development of a face robot for cranial nerves examination training
Abstract
The cranial nerves examination is one part of neurological examination. Neurologic medical staffs, especially the novices, need to be trained and grasp this skill. There are various methodologies to help the trainee to accumulate experiences. However, the best way is to practice on the real patient. The methods have their own drawbacks such as lack of active interactions, limitation of multi-symptoms' reproducing, etc. In order to improve the training effectiveness, a face robot (Fig. 1) is proposed in this paper for cranial nerves examination training as one part of the whole body patient robot named WKP (Waseda Kotokagaku Patient). In this robot, various symptoms of optical tracking, eyeball movements, facial paralysis are simulated and shown to the trainee. Finally, a set of experiments was performed to evaluate our proposed mechanism and control system. Three neurologists with over 30 years' experience were invited to show their opinions on the reproductions of the symptoms, and to discuss the results. All the results lead to the improvements for further research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ROBIO.2012.6490936
ROBIO
Keywords
Field
DocType
medical robotics,neurophysiology,facial paralysis,cranial nerves examination training,eyeball movement,neurologic medical staff,optical tracking,face robot,waseda kotokagaku patient,neurological examination,patient diagnosis,wkp whole body patient robot,training effectiveness
GRASP,Eyeball movements,Neurological examination,Control engineering,Optical tracking,Physical medicine and rehabilitation,Engineering,Facial paralysis,Robot,Cranial nerves
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-2125-9
5
0.65
References 
Authors
10
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
C. Wang14813.96
Yohan Noh211315.61
Terunaga Chihara3394.82
Mitsuhiro Tokumoto4343.84
Isamu Okuyama5272.76
Yusuke Matsuoka68111.09
Hiroyuki Ishii713328.33
Atsuo Takanishi81592319.81
Kazuyuki Hatake9598.91
Satoru Shoji10304.29