Virga S, Zettinig O, Esposito M, Pfister K, Frisch B, Neff T, Navab N, Hennersperger C (2016)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2016
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Book Volume: 2016-November
Pages Range: 508-513
Conference Proceedings Title: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Event location: Daejeon, KOR
ISBN: 9781509037629
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2016.7759101
Ultrasound (US) imaging is commonly employed for the diagnosis and staging of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), mainly due to its non-invasiveness and high availability. High inter-operator variability and a lack of repeatability of current US image acquisition impair the implementation of extensive screening programs for affected patient populations. However, this opens the way to a possible automation of the procedure, and recent works have exploited the use of robotic platforms for US applications, both in diagnostic and interventional scenarios. In this work, we propose a system for autonomous robotic US acquisitions aimed at the quantitative assessment of patients' vessel diameter for abdominal aortic aneurysm screening. Using a probabilistic measure of the US quality, we introduce an automatic estimation of the optimal pressure to be applied during the acquisition, and an online optimization of the out-of-plane rotation of the US probe to maximize the visibility of the aorta. We evaluate our method on healthy volunteers and compare the results to manual acquisitions performed by a clinical expert, demonstrating the feasibility of the presented system for AAA screening.
APA:
Virga, S., Zettinig, O., Esposito, M., Pfister, K., Frisch, B., Neff, T.,... Hennersperger, C. (2016). Automatic force-compliant robotic Ultrasound screening of abdominal aortic aneurysms. In IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (pp. 508-513). Daejeon, KOR: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
MLA:
Virga, Salvatore, et al. "Automatic force-compliant robotic Ultrasound screening of abdominal aortic aneurysms." Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2016, Daejeon, KOR Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016. 508-513.
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