The NASA Smart Probe Project for Real-Time Multiple Microsensor Tissue Recognition

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 80, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 114-119

  Andrews, Russell J ^a,b   Mah, Robert W ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain biopsy; Neural network; Robotics; Stereotaxy

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATION; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA PROBE; RODENT; SENSOR;

BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICROELECTRODES; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0842342545     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000075170     Document Type: Conference Paper

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