Pilot Study of Robot-Assisted Teleultrasound Based on 5G Network: A New Feasible Strategy for Early Imaging Assessment During COVID-19 Pandemic

Wu, Shengzheng; Wu, Dudu; Ye, Ruizhong; Li, Keyan; Lu, Yuehua; Xu, Jufen; Xiong, Linfei; Zhao, Yuanyuan; Cui, Ailin; Li, Yaqing; Peng, Chengzhong; Lv, Faqin

doi:10.1109/tuffc.2020.3020721

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“…Pilot studies showed that 5G-based robot-assisted teleultrasonography is a new feasible strategy for real-time cardiopulmonary assessment during COVID-19 pandemic. 29,30 In these studies, robots replaced the frontline ultrasonographers to obtain the parasternal long-axis view and cardiac apical four-chamber view, and brief echocardiographic assessments were realized. These strategies can help both frontline doctors and remote consultants avoid exposure to the deadly infectious virus.…”

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Using remote consultation to enhance diagnostic accuracy of bedside transthoracic echocardiography during COVID‐19 pandemic

Lin

Yin

et al. 2021

Echocardiography

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Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical significance of remote consultation over bedside transthoracic echocardiography (RC‐B‐TTE) for patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19). Methods Five frontline echocardiographers performed and interpreted B‐TTE for 30 patients with COVID‐19 in the isolation wards, and the on‐site B‐TTE reports (OSR) were generated. Then remote consultation over the 30 B‐TTE studies was conducted by two experienced echocardiographic consultants while blinded to the OSR, and the corresponding remote consultation reports (RCR) were generated. Subsequently, the five frontline echocardiographers were convened together to discuss the difference between the OSR and RCR, and to confirm the correct interpretation and the misdiagnosis using a “majority‐vote” consensus as the diagnostic “gold standard”. Afterwards the reasons for the misdiagnosis were given by the frontline echocardiographers themselves. The inter‐rater agreement between the OSR and the “gold standard” was assessed using Kappa coefficient and percent agreement. Results Complete correctness of the 30 copies of the RCR were determined by the 5 frontline echocardiographers. The reliability of the OSR in the findings of cardiac chamber dilation, left ventricular hypertrophy and pulmonary hypertension were weak ( Kappa <0.6). The reliability of the OSR in the recognition of major cardiac abnormalities was very weak ( Kappa =0.304, percent agreement =63.3%). Misdiagnosis of major abnormalities was found in 11 copies of OSR (11/30, 36.7%). Conclusions The protocol of RC‐B‐TTE has shown noticeable superiority in ameliorating diagnostic accuracy of echocardiography, which should be generalized to clinical practice during the COVID‐19 or similar pandemic.

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Section: Limitations and Perspectivesmentioning

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Using remote consultation to enhance diagnostic accuracy of bedside transthoracic echocardiography during COVID‐19 pandemic

Lin

Yin

et al. 2021

Echocardiography

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“…They also discuss the technical requirements for enabling these use cases. Wu et al [5] discuss that 5G technologies can be used to enable teleultrasound, in order to prevent infections. They propose an ultrasound protocol based on 5G network to examine the suspected and confirmed COVID-19 patients in epidemic areas.…”

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Toward Agile Information and Communication Framework for the Post-COVID-19 Era

Peng

et al. 2021

IEEE Open J. Comput. Soc.

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In order to satisfy new normal life styles in the post-COVID-19 era, an efficient information and communication technology (ICT) framework is required to collect, process, and utilize data for the purpose of satisfying increasing user demand in communications and computing while providing a functionality of responding quickly to pandemic. We propose an ICT framework that is capable to support diverse application requirements based on ambient communication, resilient computing, and agile control technologies. Computer simulations are conducted to evaluate the fundamental functionalities of the proposed framework by using a case study where data are exchanged and processed among different network entities in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) empowered vehicular environments. The simulation results show that the proposed approach can outperform existing baselines in various conditions.

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“…Another system, named OTELO [13] [14], has demonstrated clinical utility in trials [15]. Recent work has even investigated the control of such systems over 5G and in the context of COVID-19 [16].…”

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Human Teleoperation - A Haptically Enabled Mixed Reality System for Teleultrasound

Black¹,

Yazdi²,

Hosseinabadi³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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<div> <div> <div> <p>Current teleguidance methods include verbal guidance and robotic teleoperation, which present tradeoffs between precision and latency versus flexibility and cost. We present a novel concept of "human teleoperation" which bridges the gap between these two methods. A prototype teleultrasound system was implemented which shows the concept’s efficacy. An expert remotely "teloperates" a person (the follower) wearing a mixed reality headset by controlling a virtual ultrasound probe projected into the person’s scene. The follower matches the pose and force of the virtual device with a real probe. The pose, force, video, ultrasound images, and 3-dimensional mesh of the scene are fed back to the expert. In this control framework, the input and the actuation are carried out by people, but with near robot-like latency and precision. This allows teleguidance that is more precise and fast than verbal guidance, yet more flexible and inexpensive than robotic teleoperation. The system was subjected to tests that show its effectiveness, including mean teleoperation latencies of 0.27 seconds and errors of 7 mm and 6◦ in pose tracking. The system was also tested with an expert ultrasonographer and four patients and was found to improve the precision and speed of two teleultrasound procedures. </p> </div> </div> </div>

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Pilot Study of Robot-Assisted Teleultrasound Based on 5G Network: A New Feasible Strategy for Early Imaging Assessment During COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 50 publications

References 26 publications

Using remote consultation to enhance diagnostic accuracy of bedside transthoracic echocardiography during COVID‐19 pandemic

Using remote consultation to enhance diagnostic accuracy of bedside transthoracic echocardiography during COVID‐19 pandemic

Toward Agile Information and Communication Framework for the Post-COVID-19 Era

Human Teleoperation - A Haptically Enabled Mixed Reality System for Teleultrasound

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