arXiv:2509.24867cs.RO2025-09被引 2

用2D激光雷达自动定位超声探头起始位置,提升远程心脏超声效率。

Finding an Initial Probe Pose in Teleoperated Robotic Echocardiography via 2D LiDAR-Based 3D Reconstruction

  • 用机器人搭载的2D激光雷达重建胸廓三维表面,估计探头初始姿态。
  • 在人体实验中,定位点与临床标准相差20-30毫米,重复性优于4毫米。
  • 首次实现机器人集成2D激光雷达对人体体表的三维重建,抗光照纹理干扰。

超声心动图是心脏评估的关键影像手段,但高度依赖操作者,且偏远地区专业超声医师稀缺。远程操控机器人超声被提出作为解决方案,但临床研究显示其检查时间长于人工操作,增加诊断延迟和操作负担。自动化非专家任务,如自动将探头移至理想起始位置,可减轻这一压力。此前基于视觉和深度的方法对光照、纹理和解剖变异敏感。本文提出一种机器人搭载的2D LiDAR方法,通过重建胸廓三维表面,自动估计探头初始位姿。据我们所知,这是首次展示机器人集成2D LiDAR用于人体表面三维重建。通过基于平面的外参标定,激光雷达与机器人基座之间的变换估计整体均方根残差为1.8毫米,旋转不确定性低于0.2°。利用两次线性激光扫描重建胸前表面,并与非刚性模板配准以确定初始探头位置。基于假人模型的重建精度评估显示平均表面误差为2.78±0.21毫米。人体试验(N=5)表明,探头初始点通常距临床定义点20-30毫米,同一受试者多次试验间差异小于4毫米。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Echocardiography is a key imaging modality for cardiac assessment but remains highly operator-dependent, and access to trained sonographers is limited in underserved settings. Teleoperated robotic echocardiography has been proposed as a solution; however, clinical studies report longer examination times than manual procedures, increasing diagnostic delays and operator workload. Automating non-expert tasks, such as automatically moving the probe to an ideal starting pose, offers a pathway to reduce this burden. Prior vision- and depth-based approaches to estimate an initial probe pose are sensitive to lighting, texture, and anatomical variability. We propose a robot-mounted 2D LiDAR-based approach that reconstructs the chest surface in 3D and estimates the initial probe pose automatically. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of robot-mounted 2D LiDAR used for 3D reconstruction of a human body surface. Through plane-based extrinsic calibration, the transformation between the LiDAR and robot base frames was estimated with an overall root mean square (RMS) residual of 1.8 mm and rotational uncertainty below 0.2°. The chest front surface, reconstructed from two linear LiDAR sweeps, was aligned with non-rigid templates to identify an initial probe pose. A mannequin-based study assessing reconstruction accuracy showed mean surface errors of 2.78 +/- 0.21 mm. Human trials (N=5) evaluating the proposed approach found probe initial points typically 20-30 mm from the clinically defined initial point, while the variation across repeated trials on the same subject was less than 4 mm.

机器人超声激光雷达三维重建医学影像

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