Class information for:
Level 1: NEEDLE INSERTION//NEEDLE STEERING//NEEDLE DEFLECTION

Basic class information
ID Publications Average number
of references		 Avg. shr. active
ref. in WoS
17468 534 26.6 56%


Bar chart of Publication_year

Last years might be incomplete

Classes in level above (level 2)


ID, lev.
above		 Publications Label for level above
1687 6191 TACTILE SENSOR//BILATERAL TELEOPERATION//TELEOPERATION

Terms with highest relevance score


Rank Term Type of term Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class
1 NEEDLE INSERTION Author keyword 32 46% 10% 51
2 NEEDLE STEERING Author keyword 20 66% 4% 19
3 NEEDLE DEFLECTION Author keyword 13 71% 2% 10
4 UROBOT Address 9 59% 2% 10
5 BREAST BIOMECHANICS Author keyword 8 100% 1% 5
6 STEERABLE NEEDLES Author keyword 6 71% 1% 5
7 MEDICAL ROBOTICS Author keyword 6 12% 8% 45
8 ROBOT ASSISTED NEEDLE INSERTION Author keyword 6 100% 1% 4
9 ROBOTIC NEEDLE INSERTION Author keyword 4 75% 1% 3
10 MEDICAL ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS Author keyword 4 28% 2% 11

Web of Science journal categories

Author Key Words


Rank Web of Science journal category Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class		 LCSH search Wikipedia search
1 NEEDLE INSERTION 32 46% 10% 51 Search NEEDLE+INSERTION Search NEEDLE+INSERTION
2 NEEDLE STEERING 20 66% 4% 19 Search NEEDLE+STEERING Search NEEDLE+STEERING
3 NEEDLE DEFLECTION 13 71% 2% 10 Search NEEDLE+DEFLECTION Search NEEDLE+DEFLECTION
4 BREAST BIOMECHANICS 8 100% 1% 5 Search BREAST+BIOMECHANICS Search BREAST+BIOMECHANICS
5 STEERABLE NEEDLES 6 71% 1% 5 Search STEERABLE+NEEDLES Search STEERABLE+NEEDLES
6 MEDICAL ROBOTICS 6 12% 8% 45 Search MEDICAL+ROBOTICS Search MEDICAL+ROBOTICS
7 ROBOT ASSISTED NEEDLE INSERTION 6 100% 1% 4 Search ROBOT+ASSISTED+NEEDLE+INSERTION Search ROBOT+ASSISTED+NEEDLE+INSERTION
8 ROBOTIC NEEDLE INSERTION 4 75% 1% 3 Search ROBOTIC+NEEDLE+INSERTION Search ROBOTIC+NEEDLE+INSERTION
9 MEDICAL ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS 4 28% 2% 11 Search MEDICAL+ROBOTS+AND+SYSTEMS Search MEDICAL+ROBOTS+AND+SYSTEMS
10 NEEDLE SEGMENTATION 3 43% 1% 6 Search NEEDLE+SEGMENTATION Search NEEDLE+SEGMENTATION

Key Words Plus


Rank Web of Science journal category Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class
1 FLEXIBLE NEEDLES 8 75% 1% 6
2 BRACHYTHERAPY SEED PLACEMENT 6 80% 1% 4
3 STEERABLE NEEDLES 4 50% 1% 6
4 NEEDLE INSERTION 4 19% 4% 20
5 PROSTATE INTERVENTIONS 4 41% 1% 7
6 VIRTUAL REALITY EXPERIMENTS 3 100% 1% 3
7 PNEUMATIC ROBOT 3 40% 1% 6
8 SURGICAL NEEDLES 3 38% 1% 6
9 COMPATIBLE ROBOTICS 3 50% 1% 4
10 PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY 3 13% 3% 18

Journals

Reviews


Title Publ. year Cit. Active
references		 % act. ref.
to same field
Needle insertion into soft tissue: A survey 2007 205 36 47%
Needle-tissue interaction forces - A survey of experimental data 2012 17 47 62%
Interventional robotic systems: Applications and technology state-of-the art 2006 57 13 77%
The case for MR-compatible robotics: a review of the state of the 2008 31 12 67%
A review of medical robotics for minimally invasive soft tissue surgery 2010 41 39 33%
Urologic robots and future directions 2009 15 26 50%
A review of magnetic resonance imaging compatible manipulators in surgery 2006 21 10 60%
Modeling breast biomechanics for multi-modal image analysis-successes and challenges 2010 17 30 37%
Medical robotics in computer-integrated surgery 2003 317 36 14%
Robotic systems for percutaneous needle-guided interventions 2015 0 29 66%

Address terms


Rank Address term Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class
1 UROBOT 9 59% 1.9% 10
2 ROBOT MACHINE VIS 2 67% 0.4% 2
3 ADV MECH ROBOT 2 27% 1.3% 7
4 MECHATRON MED 2 27% 1.1% 6
5 SURG ASSIST TECHNOL GRP 2 36% 0.7% 4
6 PERK 1 100% 0.4% 2
7 MED ROBOT 1 27% 0.7% 4
8 PERCUTANEOUS SURG 1 27% 0.7% 4
9 ENGN COMP INTEGRATED SURG 1 40% 0.4% 2
10 ROBOT AUTOMAT MED SYST RAMS 1 27% 0.6% 3

Related classes at same level (level 1)


Rank Relatedness score Related classes
1 0.0000184106 TELEMENTORING//SOLO SURGERY//TELESURGERY
2 0.0000170477 VIRTUAL FIXTURES//SCI TECHNOL INERTIA//HEART MOTION PREDICTION
3 0.0000151693 CONTINUOUS COLLISION DETECTION//COLLISION DETECTION//SURGERY SIMULATION
4 0.0000118425 INTERVENTIONAL MRI//DEVICE VISUALIZATION//INTRAVASCULAR MRI
5 0.0000114833 CONTINUUM ROBOT//CONTINUUM ROBOTS//SNAKE ROBOT
6 0.0000111575 FREEHAND ACQUISITION//FREEHAND 3D ULTRASOUND//EXTENDED FIELD OF VIEW
7 0.0000111178 PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY//BRACHYTHERAPY//POSTIMPLANT DOSIMETRY
8 0.0000108375 MAGNETIC NAVIGATION//REMOTE MAGNETIC NAVIGATION//REMOTE NAVIGATION
9 0.0000096515 IMAGE GUIDED SURGERY//INTRAOPERATIVE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING//NEURONAVIGATION
10 0.0000095786 FOCAL THERAPY//TARGETED BIOPSY//PROSTATE BIOPSY