Robotic Ultrasound for Healthcare Applications

Professor Thiusius Rajeeth Savarimuthu

Location: Stanford Robotics Center, Packard Electrical Engineering Bldg, Basement

Time: Friday September 25th, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Abstract:

Ultrasound is a highly sensitive imaging modality for assessing disease activity, yet its clinical adoption is limited by operator dependency, variability in image acquisition, and shortages of trained specialists. This talk goes through the development of ARTHUR (ARTHritis Ultrasound Robot), a fully autonomous AI-powered robotic ultrasound system designed to standardize and automate the assessment of RA-related joint inflammation. The system integrates patient-specific joint localization, autonomous robotic probe positioning, hybrid position-force control for safe human-robot interaction, and real-time image quality assessment. How we converted robotics research to clinically approved machine.

Speaker Bio:

Professor Thiusius Rajeeth Savarimuthu received in 2011 his Ph.D. degree in Robotics and embedded medical vision. In 2005 he received his B.Sc. degree in Computer System Engineering and the M.Sc. in Computer System Engineering in 2007 at the University of Southern Denmark. He is currently full Professor at the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute at the University of Southern Denmark, where he is heading the Medical Robotics group and head of SDU Robotics. He has conducted research in both national and international research projects. His research interests include industrial robotics, AI and hardware acceleration of image processing algorithms and control of medical robotic systems. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed research publications and 10 patents with 3 more pending. Furthermore, he started 3 spin-off companies based on this research.