Paper Info
Title
Implementation of an automatic scanning and detection algorithm for the carotid artery by an assisted-robotic measurement system
Abstract
In this paper, we present a robotic system which automatically searches and detects the longitudinal section of the carotid artery using a conventional medical ultrasound diagnostic system. In order to obtain a clear image of the carotid artery ready for medical diagnosis, the authors developed real-time image processing algorithms to detect the carotid artery and tissue layers of its walls in the B-mode ultrasound images. Sequential patterns of the ultrasound probe trajectory for scanning the surface of the neck and searching the carotid, were implemented and tested on the Waseda-Tokyo Women's Medical-Aloka Blood Flow Measurement Robot System No. 1 Refined II (WTA-1RII). An experiment with eleven volunteers was carried out and the results show that the system obtained clear images of the carotid artery in 91% of the trials.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/IROS.2010.5651667
Intelligent Robots and Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
biomedical ultrasonics,blood flow measurement,blood vessels,cardiovascular system,medical image processing,medical robotics,robot vision,assisted-robotic measurement system,automatic carotid artery scanning algorithm,blood flow measurement robot system,medical ultrasound diagnostic system,real time image processing algorithm
Biomedical engineering,Computer vision,Diagnostic system,System of measurement,Blood flow,Computer science,Carotid arteries,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Digital image processing,Medical diagnosis,Ultrasound
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2153-0858
978-1-4244-6674-0
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nakadate, R.160.86
Solis, J.260.86
Atsuo Takanishi31592319.81
Minagawa, E.460.86