解剖学的アンカーに基づく模倣学習で自律ロボット超音波検査を実現
From Freehand Demonstrations to Autonomous Robotic Ultrasound: An Anatomy-Anchored Learning Framework
解剖学的ランドマークを基準にプローブ位置決めと走査動作を学習する模倣学習フレームワークを提案し、未見被験者16名で腎臓・胆嚢・肝臓・橈骨動脈の走査を高成功率で達成した。
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著者: Yuan Bi, Fangxu Han, Ye Su, Yiping Zhou, Zhongliang Jiang, Nassir Navab
分類: cs.RO
原文アブストラクト
Ultrasound imaging is highly operator-dependent, motivating robotic systems that reproduce expert scanning skills consistently. These skills involve coordinated interpretation of anatomical landmarks, ultrasound images, and probe-tissue interactions that are difficult to encode in hand-designed control strategies. Imitation learning offers an alternative, but its observation and action representations should reflect the anatomically structured nature of scanning. We propose an anatomy-anchored imitation-learning framework that combines anatomy-guided probe placement with learned ultrasound navigation. The placement module identifies a task-specific anatomical starting point from external visual observations and establishes the initial probe pose as the reference frame for scanning. A flow-based policy then generates scanning motions from anchor-relative probe poses, ultrasound images, probe-mounted camera views, and contact forces, while a termination head predicts task completion. This avoids continuous reliance on third-person vision and reduces dependence on the robot-patient configuration. A handheld acquisition platform enables multimodal demonstrations to be collected during natural freehand scanning without a robot. On 16 unseen participants, task success reaches 96%, 94%, 88%, and 94% for kidney, gallbladder, and liver standard-plane acquisition and radial artery sweeping, respectively. Compared with a fine-tuned pi_0 model, success on the abdominal tasks improves by 10-42 percentage points, with lower time-to-target, peak contact force, and trajectory jerk. Ablations support the complementary roles of anatomical anchoring, egocentric vision, and force feedback. End-to-end trials with automatic placement achieve 90-100% success, and the policies transfer without retraining to a second robot with 83-100% success.
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