Haptic Intracorporeal Palpation Using a Cable-Driven Parallel Robot: A User Study.
Journal:
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Published Date:
Nov 19, 2020
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Intraoperative palpation is a surgical gesture jeopardized by the lack of haptic feedback which affects robotic minimally invasive surgery. Restoring the force reflection in teleoperated systems may improve both surgeons' performance and procedures' outcome.