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ArticleInternational journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery2025

Robotic navigation with deep reinforcement learning in transthoracic echocardiography.

Yuuki Shida, Souto Kumagai, Hiroyasu Iwata

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Article in International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  1. Automated image acquisition of apical four-chamber view with robotic echocardiography.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2026
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Yuuki ShidaGraduate School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, 169-8050, Japan. arares201@moegi.waseda.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2698-9577
Souto KumagaiGraduate School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, 169-8050, Japan.
Hiroyasu IwataFaculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, 169-8050, Japan.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe search for heart components in robotic transthoracic echocardiography is a time-consuming process. This paper proposes an optimized robotic navigation system for heart components using deep reinforcement learning to achieve an efficient and effective search technique for heart components.

methodThe proposed method introduces (i) an optimized search behavior generation algorithm that avoids multiple local solutions and searches for the optimal solution and (ii) an optimized path generation algorithm that minimizes the search path, thereby realizing short search times.

resultsThe mitral valve search with the proposed method reaches the optimal solution with a probability of 74.4%, the mitral valve confidence loss rate when the local solution stops is 16.3% on average, and the inspection time with the generated path is 48.6 s on average, which is 56.6% of the time cost of the conventional method.

conclusionThe results indicate that the proposed method improves the search efficiency, and the optimal location can be searched in many cases with the proposed method, and the loss rate of the confidence in the mitral valve was low even when a local solution rather than the optimal solution was reached. It is suggested that the proposed method enables accurate and quick robotic navigation to find heart components.

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Deep LearningEchocardiographyMitral ValveRobotic Surgical ProceduresSurgery, Computer-AssistedAlgorithmsHumansReinforcement Machine LearningEchocardiographyHuman–robot interactionMedical robotsRobotic ultrasound

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PMCPMC11757869

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