A Novel Inductive Tactile Probe Design for Lump Detection in Soft Tissue Phantoms

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1 Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Sakarya University of Applied Sciences, Sakarya, Sakarya, Turkey

2 Mechatronics Engineering, Institute of Natural Sciences, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey

Abstract

The purpose of this study is the development of a novel tactile probe for detection of lumps in soft tissue. The tactile probe includes an inductive sensor inside of an artificial tissue-like silicon rubber cushioning and a square shaped multi-metal-array to increase sensitivity. Firstly, a thermoplastic polymer probe was fabricated for housing and the mechanical compression test was executed by material testing machine. Secondly, the tactile sensor was calibrated between 2.5N-25N by 2.5N incremental steps and showed 99.49% linear behavior. In order to measure probe’s performance, 16 cylindrical silicon phantoms were used in three different scenarios. Each phantom was embedded by hard plastic inclusions at different depths and sizes. Finally, human palpation experiments were conducted by 10 naive subjects for the same scenarios above. The comparison results showed that especially for deep inclusions at low forces, human subjects had high false diagnose rates, while the tactile sensor could detect the deep inclusions at all force levels (ANOVA, p

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Scientia Iranica
Volume 27, Issue 6 - Serial Number 6
Transactions on Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering (D)
November and December 2020
Pages 3118-3127

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  • Receive Date: 27 May 2018
  • Revise Date: 11 October 2018
  • Accept Date: 22 December 2018

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