TY - GEN
T1 - Implementation of an automatic scanning and detection algorithm for the carotid artery by an assisted-robotic measurement system
AU - Nakadate, Ryu
AU - Solis, Jorge
AU - Takanishi, Atsuo
AU - Minagawa, Eiichi
AU - Sugawara, Motoaki
AU - Niki, Kiyomi
PY - 2010/12/1
Y1 - 2010/12/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1109/IROS.2010.5651667
DO - 10.1109/IROS.2010.5651667
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78651494661
SN - 9781424466757
T3 - IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010 - Conference Proceedings
SP - 313
EP - 318
BT - IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010 - Conference Proceedings
T2 - 23rd IEEE/RSJ 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2010
Y2 - 18 October 2010 through 22 October 2010
ER -