Autonomous Robotic Lung Ultrasound

Last updated in March 2025.

Introduction

This project was a research project I participated in at CUHK, supervised by Prof. LI Zheng and Prof. Pheng-Ann Heng, 2023 ~ 2024. This project aimed to use robots to perform autonomous point-of-care lung ultrasound examinations in ICUs to reduce the risk of infection for clinicians during epidemics. I contributed to this project as the robot development lead, prototyped a robotic lung ultrasound system and assisted in its preclinical validation.

For more info

For more technical details please refer to the publication:

L. Lei*, Y. Hu*, Z. Jiang*, J. Miao, X. Luo, Y. Zhang, Q. Wang, S. Wang†, Z. Li†, and P.-A. Heng, “Towards Lung Ultrasound Automation: Fully Autonomous Robotic Longitudinal and Transverse Scans Along Intercostal Spaces,” in IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics (T-MRB), Early Access, 2025, doi: 10.1109/TMRB.2025.3550663.

Demo

Here is a video demo of our system performing lung ultrasound examination of the anterior-superior region of a volunteer through the second and third intercostal spaces.