Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 08, 2016 - June 11, 2016
We have been developing the ultrasonic diagnosis support robot for prenatal care. This robot can be controlled remotely. With this robot, a novel teleoperation prenatal care service called “offline prenatal care” is proposed. The offline prenatal care service reconstructs ultrasonic images acquired by the robot previously. The robot should scan the whole uterus automatically. To actualize the service, the automatic scanning method (two line scanning) and the fetus image reconstruction method are developed. In the experiment, the robot scanned a pregnant woman abdomen model by two line scanning and the specific ultrasonic image for prenatal care diagnosis (AC) was reconstructed from the scanned images in offline. It certified the proposed method's availability for the offline prenatal care.
