@inproceedings{4c9d5678ffd646c3bf5464bbf8c891f5,
title = "Design and integration of electrical bio-impedance sensing in a bipolar forceps for soft tissue identification: A feasibility study",
abstract = "This paper presents the integration of electrical bioimpedance sensing technology into a bipolar surgical forceps for soft tissue identification during a robotic assisted procedure. The EBI sensing is done by pressing the forceps on the target tissue with a controlled pressing depth and a controlled jaw opening distance. The impact of these 2 parameters are characterized by finite element simulation. Subsequently, an experiment is conducted with 4 types of ex-vivo tissues including liver, kidney, lung and muscle. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed EBI sensing method can identify these 4 tissue types with an accuracy higher than 92.82%.",
keywords = "Bipolar forceps, Electrical bio-impedance, Electrode configuration, Finite element method, Tissue identification",
author = "Zhuoqi Cheng and Diego Dall{\textquoteright}alba and Caldwell, {Darwin G.} and Paolo Fiorini and Mattos, {Leonardo S.}",
year = "2020",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-981-13-3498-6_1",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789811334979",
series = "IFMBE Proceedings",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "3--10",
editor = "Pedro Bertemes-Filho",
booktitle = "17th International Conference on Electrical Bioimpedance, ICEBI 2019",
address = "Germany",
note = "17th International Conference on Electrical Bioimpedance, ICEBI 2019 ; Conference date: 09-06-2019 Through 14-06-2019",
}