Palpation

Remote palpation technology

Robert D. Howe, William J. Peine, D.A. Kantarinis, Jae Sung Son

Citations: 295 • 1995

Cutaneous Feedback of Fingertip Deformation and Vibration for Palpation in Robotic Surgery

Claudio Pacchierotti, Domenico Prattichizzo, Katherine J. Kuchenbecker

Citations: 228 • 2015

Implementation of Tactile Sensing for Palpation in Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery: A Review

Jelizaveta Konstantinova, Allen Jiang, Kaspar Althoefer, Prokar Dasgupta, Thrishantha Nanayakkara

Citations: 165 • 2014

Tactile Sensors for Minimally Invasive Surgery: A Review of the State-of-the-Art, Applications, and Perspectives

Naghmeh Bandari, Javad Dargahi, Muthukumaran Packirisamy

Citations: 144 • 2019

A Surgical Palpation Probe With 6-Axis Force/Torque Sensing Capability for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Uikyum Kim, Yong Bum Kim, Dong-Yeop Seok, Jinho So, Hyouk Ryeol Choi

Citations: 140 • 2017

Robot-assisted Tactile Sensing for Minimally Invasive Tumor Localization

Ana Luisa Trejos, Jagadeesan Jayender, Melissa T. Perri, Michael D. Naish, Rajni V. Patel, Richard Malthaner

Citations: 110 • 2009

Optical Micro/Nanofiber-Enabled Compact Tactile Sensor for Hardness Discrimination

Yao Tang, Haitao Liu, Jing Pan, Zhang Zhang, Yue Xu, Ni Yao, Lei Zhang, Limin Tong

Citations: 107 • 2021

Haptic object recognition using passive joints and haptic key features

Nicolas Gorges, Stefan Escaida Navarro, Dirk Göger, Heinz Wörn

Citations: 103 • 2010

Discretely Loaded Beam-Type Optical Fiber Tactile Sensor for Tissue Manipulation and Palpation in Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery

Roozbeh Ahmadi, Muthukumaran Packirisamy, Javad Dargahi, Renzo Cecere

Citations: 102 • 2011

Human vs. robotic tactile sensing: Detecting lumps in soft tissue

James C. Gwilliam, Zachary Pezzementi, Erica Jantho, Allison M. Okamura, Steven S. Hsiao

Citations: 85 • 2010

Wireless Tissue Palpation for Intraoperative Detection of Lumps in the Soft Tissue

Marco Beccani, Christian Di Natali, Levin J. Sliker, Jonathan A. Schoen, Mark E. Rentschler, Pietro Valdastri

Citations: 83 • 2013

Design, Development, and Testing of an Automated Laparoscopic Grasper with 3-D Force Measurement Capability

Gregory Tholey, Anand Pillarisetti, William H. Green, Jaydev P. Desai

Citations: 80 • 2004

Methods to Segment Hard Inclusions in Soft Tissue During Autonomous Robotic Palpation

Kirk A. Nichols, Allison M. Okamura

Citations: 76 • 2015

Experimental evaluation of magnified haptic feedback for robot‐assisted needle insertion and palpation

Leonardo Meli, Claudio Pacchierotti, Domenico Prattichizzo

Citations: 75 • 2017

Tumor localization using automated palpation with Gaussian Process Adaptive Sampling

Animesh Garg, Siddarth Sen, Rishi Kapadia, Yiming Jen, Stephen McKinley, Lauren Miller, Ken Goldberg

Citations: 73 • 2016

Low-Cost Disposable Tactile Sensors for Palpation in Minimally Invasive Surgery

Anish S. Naidu, Rajni V. Patel, Michael D. Naish

Citations: 72 • 2016

Integration of Force Reflection with Tactile Sensing for Minimally Invasive Robotics-Assisted Tumor Localization

Ali Talasaz, Rajni V. Patel

Citations: 71 • 2012

An advanced robot system for automated diagnostic tasks through palpation

Paolo Dario, Massimo Bergamasco

Citations: 71 • 1988

Fluorescence-guided surgery of cancer: applications, tools and perspectives

Philip S. Low, Sunil Singhal, Madduri Srinivasarao

Citations: 70 • 2018

A single-use haptic palpation probe for locating subcutaneous blood vessels in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery

Stephen McKinley, Animesh Garg, Siddarth Sen, Rishi Kapadia, Adithyavairavan Murali, Kirk A. Nichols, S. M. L. Lim, Sachin Patil, Pieter Abbeel, Allison M. Okamura, Ken Goldberg

Citations: 70 • 2015