Robotic simulators for tissue examination training with multimodal sensory feedback

Tissue examination by hand remains an essential technique in clinical practice. The effective application depends on skills in sensorimotor coordination, mainly involving haptic, visual, and auditory feedback. The skills clinicians have to learn can be as subtle as regulating finger pressure with br...

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Main Authors: He, L, Maiolino, P, Leong, F, Dulantha Lalitharatne, T, De Lusignan, S, Ghajari, M, Iida, F, Nanayakkara, T
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2022
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author He, L
Maiolino, P
Leong, F
Dulantha Lalitharatne, T
De Lusignan, S
Ghajari, M
Iida, F
Nanayakkara, T
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Nanayakkara, T
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description Tissue examination by hand remains an essential technique in clinical practice. The effective application depends on skills in sensorimotor coordination, mainly involving haptic, visual, and auditory feedback. The skills clinicians have to learn can be as subtle as regulating finger pressure with breathing, choosing palpation action, monitoring involuntary facial and vocal expressions in response to palpation, and using pain expressions both as a source of information and as a constraint on physical examination. Patient simulators can provide a safe learning platform to novice physicians before trying real patients. This paper reviews state-of-the-art medical simulators for the training for the first time with a consideration of providing multimodal feedback to learn as many manual examination techniques as possible. The study summarizes current advances in tissue examination training devices simulating different medical conditions and providing different types of feedback modalities. Opportunities with the development of pain expression, tissue modeling, actuation, and sensing are also analyzed to support the future design of effective tissue examination simulators.
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Dulantha Lalitharatne, T
De Lusignan, S
Ghajari, M
Iida, F
Nanayakkara, T
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title Robotic simulators for tissue examination training with multimodal sensory feedback
title_full Robotic simulators for tissue examination training with multimodal sensory feedback
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