Lab2Market West: Advancing echocardiography scanning through multiview fusion using robotics and machine learning

Echocardiography is widely used for scanning cardiac patients to assess the health of their hearts. Despite its wide use, echocardiography suffers from a few limitations, including the limited field-of-view and longer scanning times. We propose a product using a collaborative robot arm to overcome these limitations. Our project allows scanning the heart from different locations and fusing them to get a combined single scan. It also makes the overall scanning process efficient by moving the ultrasound probe to the desired locations quickly. In this project, an internship student will perform the market analysis by consulting numerous stakeholders to prepare a business plan for product development.

Faculty Supervisor:

Kumaradevan Punithakumar

Student:

Partner:

North Forge

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Education; Management of companies and enterprises; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program: