Fig. 4: Autonomous scanning and image analysis with deep neural networks. | Nature Communications

Fig. 4: Autonomous scanning and image analysis with deep neural networks.

From: Towards expert-level autonomous carotid ultrasonography with large-scale learning-based robotic system

Fig. 4

a Technical workflow for autonomous carotid artery ultrasound examination system, including autonomous scan, biometric measurement, and plaque segmentation. b The scanning model architecture demonstrates the action decision module and stage transition module. c The biometric measurement model architecture includes the image quality assessment module, measurable region focusing module and intima structure keypoint detection module. d The plaque segmentation model architecture employs the vessel region focusing module and multi-scale feature fusion module.

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