Anatomical Prior-Driven Framework for Autonomous Robotic Cardiac Ultrasound Standard View Acquisition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21134v1
• Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:11:44 GMT
• Title: Anatomical Prior-Driven Framework for Autonomous Robotic Cardiac Ultrasound Standard View Acquisition
• Abstract summary: An anatomical prior (AP)-driven framework is proposed to integrate cardiac structure segmentation and autonomous probe adjustment for standard view acquisition.<n>APs are fitted to a spatial-relation graph (SRG) module to construct probabilistic APs.<n>Experiments validate the efficacy of the framework.
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• Abstract: 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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