用解剖先验引导机器人自动获取心脏超声标准切面
Anatomical Prior-Driven Framework for Autonomous Robotic Cardiac Ultrasound Standard View Acquisition
- 引入解剖先验与空间关系图,提升心脏结构分割准确性
- 在模拟和模型实验中实现92.5%与86.7%的标准切面获取成功率
- 适合医疗机器人、智能超声系统研发人员参考
心脏超声诊断对心血管疾病评估至关重要,但标准切面获取高度依赖操作者。现有医学分割模型在纹理区分度低的图像中常产生解剖不一致结果,而自主探头调整方法或依赖简单规则,或为黑箱学习。为此,本文提出一种融合心脏结构分割与自主探头调整的解剖先验(AP)驱动框架。基于YOLOv11s的多类别分割模型引入空间关系图(SRG)模块,将解剖先验嵌入特征金字塔;提取标准切面的量化解剖特征,并拟合为高斯分布构建概率化解剖先验。将机器人超声扫描的探头调整过程建模为强化学习(RL)问题,状态由实时解剖特征构成,奖励函数反映解剖先验匹配度。实验验证了该框架的有效性:SRG-YOLOv11s在Special Case数据集上mAP50提升11.3%,mIoU提升6.8%;RL代理在仿真中成功率达92.5%,在模型实验中达86.7%。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Cardiac ultrasound diagnosis is critical for cardiovascular disease assessment, but acquiring standard views remains highly operator-dependent. Existing medical segmentation models often yield anatomically inconsistent results in images with poor textural differentiation between distinct feature classes, while autonomous probe adjustment methods either rely on simplistic heuristic rules or black-box learning. To address these issues, our study proposed an anatomical prior (AP)-driven framework integrating cardiac structure segmentation and autonomous probe adjustment for standard view acquisition. A YOLO-based multi-class segmentation model augmented by a spatial-relation graph (SRG) module is designed to embed AP into the feature pyramid. Quantifiable anatomical features of standard views are extracted. Their priors are fitted to Gaussian distributions to construct probabilistic APs. The probe adjustment process of robotic ultrasound scanning is formalized as a reinforcement learning (RL) problem, with the RL state built from real-time anatomical features and the reward reflecting the AP matching. Experiments validate the efficacy of the framework. The SRG-YOLOv11s improves mAP50 by 11.3% and mIoU by 6.8% on the Special Case dataset, while the RL agent achieves a 92.5% success rate in simulation and 86.7% in phantom experiments.
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