An automatic robotic ultrasound scanning system successfully obtained clear images of the carotid artery in 91% of trials among 11 volunteers.
Does an assisted-robotic measurement system automatically detect and obtain clear images of the carotid artery in volunteers?
An automated robotic ultrasound system demonstrated high success (91%) in obtaining clear images of the carotid artery, suggesting feasibility for automated vascular scanning.
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.
Nakadate et al. (Fri,) conducted a other in Carotid artery imaging (n=11). Automatic scanning and detection algorithm using a robotic measurement system (WTA-1RII) was evaluated on Obtaining clear images of the carotid artery. An automatic robotic ultrasound scanning system successfully obtained clear images of the carotid artery in 91% of trials among 11 volunteers.
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