State-of-the-Art in Force and Tactile Sensing for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Haptic perception plays a very important role in surgery. It enables the surgeon to feel organic tissue hardness, measure tissue properties, evaluate anatomical structures, and allows him/her to commit appropriate force control actions for safe tissue manipulation. However, in minimally invasive sur...

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Published in:IEEE sensors journal 2008-04, Vol.8 (4), p.371-381
Main Authors: Puangmali, P., Althoefer, K., Seneviratne, L.D., Murphy, D., Dasgupta, P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anatomical structure
Detection
Force control
Force feedback
Force measurement
force sensor
Haptic interfaces
haptic perception
Haptics
Minimally invasive surgery
minimally invasive surgery (MIS)
Optical feedback
Perception
robotic surgery
State of the art
Strategy
Surgeons
Surgery
Surges
Surgical instruments
Tactile
tactile sensor
Tissue damage
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Summary:Haptic perception plays a very important role in surgery. It enables the surgeon to feel organic tissue hardness, measure tissue properties, evaluate anatomical structures, and allows him/her to commit appropriate force control actions for safe tissue manipulation. However, in minimally invasive surgery, the surgeon's ability of perceiving valuable haptic information through surgical instruments is severely impaired. Performing the surgery without such sensory information could lead to increase of tissue trauma and vital organic tissue damage. In order to restore the surgeon's perceptual capability, methods of force and tactile sensing have been applied with attempts to develop instruments that can be used to detect tissue contact forces and generate haptic feedback to the surgeon. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art in force and tactile sensing technologies applied in minimally invasive surgery. Several sensing strategies including displacement-based, current-based, pressure-based, resistive-based, capacitive-based, piezoelectric-based, vibration-based, and optical-based sensing are discussed.
ISSN:1530-437X
1558-1748
DOI:10.1109/JSEN.2008.917481