Abstract
Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery has many advantages compared to conventional open surgery and also certain drawbacks: it causes less operative trauma and faster recovery times but does not allow for direct tumour palpation as is the case in open surgery. This article reviews state-of-the-art intra-operative tumour localisation methods used in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery and in particular methods that employ force-based sensing, tactile-based sensing, and medical imaging techniques. The limitations and challenges of these methods are discussed and future research directions are proposed.
| Original language | British English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 509-522 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine |
| Volume | 228 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - May 2014 |
Keywords
- Haptic feedback
- Minimally invasive surgery
- Palpation
- Tumour localisation