Study and Analysis of a Remote Robot-assisted Ultrasound Imaging System

Geng, Chao; Xie, Qiang; Chen, Long; Li, Alex; Qin, Binjie

doi:10.1109/itnec48623.2020.9084796

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“…According to the actual application data of the system in Table 5, the efficiency and quality of ultrasound diagnosis and treatment have been significantly improved after the application of the system. Compared with the works of Duan et al, 13 Adams et al, 14 Wu et al, 16 and Geng et al, 7 high efficiency is a large advantage of this system, which is incomparable to robot‐assisted remote ultrasound. This system will be more suitable for improving the efficiency of daily ultrasound examination in large hospitals and the diagnosis and treatment level in primary hospitals.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…Due to the characteristics of ultrasound itself (operator dependent, experience dependent, image local), with the rapid increase in the quantity of ultrasound and rapid expansion, ultrasound has emerged as a problem: how to manage increasing workload while ensuring guarantee of the quality of medical treatment, how to elevate the level of primary hospital ultrasound diagnosis and treatment, and how to address the unequal distribution of ultrasound medical resources. 6,7 The development of remote consultation or ultrasound telemedicine is considered an effective method to solve the uneven distribution of ultrasound medical resources. 8 The ultrasound remote consultation system uses modern network technology, computer technology, and multimedia technology to digitize and reconstruct medical images, realize remote collection, storage, transmission, analysis, and processing of images, and realize a series of medical activities for remote diagnosis and treatment of diseases.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Remote ultrasound real‐time consultation and quality control system

Zhang,

Luo,

Qiu

et al. 2023

Int J Imaging Syst Tech

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Ultrasound examination is widely used, but there are problems such as difficulties in quality control and unbalanced distribution of ultrasound resources in primary hospitals. In this article, a novel remote ultrasound real‐time consultation and quality control system was developed. The system uses advanced information science technology, medical image acquisition equipment, audio and video coding and decoding technology, combined User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) transfer protocols, server cluster design technology. It realizes remote real‐time medical consultation and quality control between the doctors in the consulation center and doctors in the ultrasound examination room. The image similarity, transmission delay, and efficiency of ultrasound treatment were tested. System test data show that the quality of ultrasound images transmitted to the consultation center is the same as the quality of the original ultrasound images, the distortion is less than 1%, and the audio and video transmission delay is less than 0.2 s. The system significantly improves the efficiency and quality of ultrasound diagnosis and treatment through its high interactivity, and can also help improve the level of ultrasound diagnosis and treatment in primary hospitals.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 86%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Remote ultrasound real‐time consultation and quality control system

Zhang,

Luo,

Qiu

et al. 2023

Int J Imaging Syst Tech

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“…Recently, with the aim of enhancing the information gained from the visual output of an ultrasonic probe, the possibility of exploiting real-time filtering algorithms has been discussed [52]. A comprehensive vision system intended to assist orthopedic surgery was described in [53].…”

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Remote Ultrasound Scan Procedures with Medical Robots: Towards New Perspectives between Medicine and Engineering

Bucolo

Buscarino

et al. 2022

Applied Bionics and Biomechanics

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Background. This review explores state-of-the-art teleoperated robots for medical ultrasound scan procedures, providing a comprehensive look including the recent trends arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods. Physicians’ experience is included to indicate the importance of their role in the design of improved medical robots. From this perspective, novel classes of equipment for remote diagnostics based on medical robotics are discussed in terms of innovative engineering technologies. Results. Relevant literature is reviewed under the system engineering point of view, organizing the discussion on the basis of the main technological focus of each contribution. Conclusions. This contribution is aimed at stimulating new research to obtain faster results on teleoperated robotics for ultrasound diagnostics in response to the high demand raised by the ongoing pandemic.

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“…Obtaining high-quality ultrasound images is heavily dependent on the experience and skill of the sonographer. Therefore, a robot-assisted remote ultrasound system has been introduced, which allows skilled sonographers to remotely assist an inexperienced operator (Geng et al, 2020). Even now, in view of the current COVID-19 epidemic, with the support of the 5G communication network, several remote US operating systems have been successfully applied to remotely examine and diagnose the lungs, heart, and vascular system (Wu et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Ultrasound (US) imaging is well known for its noninvasiveness, low-cost, real-time imaging, and applicability compared to other alternative imaging technologies, such as computerized tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which have served as a gold standard for various clinical diagnoses and applications (Geng et al, 2020;Li et al, 2021;Priester et al, 2013). However, research shows that traditional, handheld ultrasonic scanning will lead to musculoskeletal diseases of the sonographer due to long-term uncomfortable posture operation (Welleweerd et al, 2020b;Ulrich and Struijk, 2021).…”

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Varying rate adaptive hybrid position–impedance control for robot-assisted ultrasonic examination system

Xie

Zheng²

2022

Mech. Sci.

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Abstract. Robot ultrasound has great potential for reducing the workload of a sonographer, improving the access to nursing care, producing more accurate imaging, and avoiding direct contact with patients. However, in the process of ultrasonic scanning, the traditional manual control scheme of the ultrasonic machine cannot simultaneously consider the problems of instantaneous contact force overshoot and steady-state force-tracking error, which is very important to improve image quality and ensure patient safety. In this paper, we proposed a varying rate adaptive hybrid position–impedance control strategy, which is used for the ultrasonic robot operator to scan the abdomen transversely. In order to ensure the stability of ultrasonic robot in the position subspace with parameter uncertainty and external interference, an adaptive inverse position controller is designed. In the scanning process of force subspace, a variable adaptive impedance control scheme is carefully designed to avoid force overshoot and keep the accuracy of the force tracking. Different from the classical impedance realization, the dynamic update rate is to update the impedance characteristics through force sensor feedback, reduce overshoot, and keep the stability and accuracy of the robot system during the task. Through the comparative study of different adaptive control schemes, the effectiveness of the proposed variable rate adaptive impedance control strategy was discussed. The proposed control scheme was verified in the virtual robot experimental environment, V-rep. Simulation and experimental results show that the proposed variable rate adaptive position impedance hybrid control scheme is more promising and efficient in robot-assisted ultrasound imaging.

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Study and Analysis of a Remote Robot-assisted Ultrasound Imaging System

Cited by 11 publications

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Remote ultrasound real‐time consultation and quality control system

Remote ultrasound real‐time consultation and quality control system

Remote Ultrasound Scan Procedures with Medical Robots: Towards New Perspectives between Medicine and Engineering

Varying rate adaptive hybrid position–impedance control for robot-assisted ultrasonic examination system

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