Autonomous Robotic Ultrasound System for Liver Follow-up Diagnosis: Pilot Phantom Study

arXiv:2405.05787v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The paper introduces a novel autonomous robot ultrasound (US) system targeting liver follow-up scans for outpatients in local communities. Given a computed tomography (CT) image with specific target regions of interest, the proposed system carries out the autonomous follow-up scan in three steps: (i) initial robot contact to surface, (ii) coordinate mapping between CT image and robot, and (iii) target US scan. Utilizing 3D US-CT registration and deep learning-based segmentation networks, we can achieve precise …

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