A novel robotic tactile mass detector with application in clinical breast examination

Minimally Invasive Therapy and Allied Technologies

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 210-221

  Mojra, Afsaneh ^a   Najarian, Siamak ^a   Towliat Kashani, Seyed Mohsen ^b   Panahi, Farzad ^b   Tehrani, Morteza Ali ^c  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b BAQIYATALLAH UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Artificial tactile sensing; Clinical breast examination; Finite element method; Robotics; Soft tissue

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL TACTILE SENSING; BREAST EXAMINATION; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTIC TACTILE MASS DETECTOR; ROBOTICS; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENSOR; THICKNESS;

BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84861511677     PISSN: 13645706     EISSN: 13652931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13645706.2011.602087     Document Type: Article

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