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Abstract | ||
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This paper presents new findings concerning a hand-held stiffness probe for the medical diagnosis of abnormalities during palpation of soft-tissue. Palpation is recognized by the medical community as an essential and low-cost method to detect and diagnose disease in soft-tissue. However, differences are often subtle and clinicians need to train for many years before they can conduct a reliable diagnosis. The probe presented here fills this gap providing a means to easily obtain stiffness values of soft tissue during a palpation procedure. Our stiffness sensor is equipped with a multi degree of freedom (DoF) Aurora magnetic tracker, allowing us to track and record the 3D position of the probe whilst examining a tissue area, and generate a 3D stiffness map in real-time. The stiffness probe was integrated in a robotic arm and tested in an artificial environment representing a good model of soft tissue organs; the results show that the sensor can accurately measure and map the stiffness of a silicon phantom embedded with areas of varying stiffness. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2018 | 10.3390/s18051347 | SENSORS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
stiffness sensor,soft tissue characterization,hand-held probe,medical examination,palpation | Artificial environment,Computer vision,Robotic arm,Stiffness,Imaging phantom,Real time vision,Electronic engineering,Artificial intelligence,Palpation,Engineering,Soft tissue,Medical diagnosis | Journal |
Volume | Issue | Citations |
18 | 5.0 | 0 |
PageRank | References | Authors |
0.34 | 3 | 6 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angela Faragasso | 1 | 58 | 6.66 |
| J Bimbo | 2 | 4 | 1.89 |
| Agostino Stilli | 3 | 58 | 8.71 |
| Helge A. Wurdemann | 4 | 151 | 11.63 |
| Kaspar Althoefer | 5 | 847 | 112.87 |
| Hajime Asama | 6 | 826 | 237.10 |