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Shuangyi Wang, James Housden, Yohan Noh, Davinder Singh, Anisha Singh, Emily Skelton, Jacqueline Matthew, Cornelius Tan, Junghwan Back, Lukas Lindenroth, Alberto Gomez, Nicolas Toussaint, Veronika Zimmer, Caroline Knight, Tara Fletcher, David Lloyd, John Simpson, Dharmintra Pasupathy, Hongbin Liu, Kaspar Althoefer & 3 more
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 27-38 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Published | 1 Jan 2019 |
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Event | 20th Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems Conference, TAROS 2019 - London, United Kingdom Duration: 3 Jul 2019 → 5 Jul 2019 |
Submitted manuscript
The development of robotic-assisted extracorporeal ultrasound systems has a long history and a number of projects have been proposed since the 1990s focusing on different technical aspects. These aim to resolve the deficiencies of on-site manual manipulation of hand-held ultrasound probes. This paper presents the recent ongoing developments of a series of bespoke robotic systems, including both single-arm and dual-arm versions, for a project known as intelligent Fetal Imaging and Diagnosis (iFIND). After a brief review of the development history of the extracorporeal ultrasound robotic system used for fetal and abdominal examinations, the specific aim of the iFIND robots, the design evolution, the implementation details of each version, and the initial clinical feedback of the iFIND robot series are presented. Based on the preliminary testing of these newly-proposed robots on 42 volunteers, the successful and reliable working of the mechatronic systems were validated. Analysis of a participant questionnaire indicates a comfortable scanning experience for the volunteers and a good acceptance rate to being scanned by the robots.
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