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  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence

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  • Soft robots enhance medical interventions, offering improved safety and surgeon dexterity.
  • Artificial intelligence integration promises autonomous procedures like cancer detection via tissue palpation.
  • Obscured surgical views necessitate palpation methods beyond traditional cameras.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the efficacy of a soft robot with Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) for tissue palpation in simulated large intestine inspections.
  • To classify tissue samples as healthy or cancerous based on shape changes of the soft robot during palpation.
  • To assess the performance of a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) classifier using EIT data.

Main Methods:

  • A hydraulically-driven soft continuum robot was fabricated for in-plane bending.
  • A tissue phantom simulating the descending colon wall, incorporating stiffness variations, was designed.
  • Shape changes induced by tissue interaction were mapped using EIT, and data was fed into an LSTM classifier.

Main Results:

  • The soft robot-EIT system achieved accuracy on phantom A and accuracy on phantom B.
  • The classifier demonstrated classification capabilities on unseen data with differing stiffness distributions.
  • Confusion matrices and heat maps visualized the algorithm's accuracy in classifying tissues.

Conclusions:

  • The soft robot integrated with EIT shows promise for non-invasive tissue palpation and characterization.
  • This approach offers a potential advancement in AI-assisted diagnostics for conditions like colorectal cancer.
  • Further development could lead to enhanced autonomous surgical interventions with improved diagnostic capabilities.