Title
Robotic Ultrasound: View Planning, Tracking, and Automatic Acquisition of Transesophageal Echocardiography.
Abstract
Automatic ultrasound acquisitions using medical robots would greatly increase the general usability of medical ultrasound with the added benefits of remote control and built-in intelligence. However, novel methods are required to provide an overall workflow linking robotic systems with ultrasound acquisitions. Based on a newly developed robot for transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), we propose a view-planning platform, an autoadaption method for patient-specific data, and an image-based probe tracking method. With all of these ingredients, a phantom experiment was performed with both openloop and closed-loop positioning methods, aimed at proving the concept of automatic ultrasound acquisition. The results demonstrated the feasibility of the whole workflow and indicated high accuracy of acquisition in terms of keeping desired anatomies in the field of view.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/MRA.2016.2580478
IEEE Robot. Automat. Mag.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Ultrasonic imaging,Probes,Echocardiography,Biomedical image processing,Robot sensing systems,Medical robots
Field of view,Computer vision,Remote control,Imaging phantom,Usability,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,View planning,Robot,Workflow,Ultrasound
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
4
1070-9932
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.49
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shuangyi Wang131.17
Davinder Singh272.23
Dayid S. Johnson32213870.42
Kaspar Althoefer4847112.87
Kawal S. Rhode575978.72
Richard James Housden652.28