公开(公告)号：US20250064534A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-27

申请号：US18719225

申请日：2022-12-02

Applicant: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Inventor： Ryousuke TSUMURA ,  Naotaka NITTA ,  Kiyoshi YOSHINAKA ,  Yoshihiko KOSEKI

IPC: A61B34/30 ,  A61B7/02 ,  A61B8/00 ,  A61B34/20 ,  G06T7/00

Abstract: To provide a medical support method capable of making a medical instrument, such as an ultrasound probe and a stethoscope, autonomously contact with an appropriate position on a subject. A medical support method to be executed by a medical support robot device that performs medical practice to a subject using a medical instrument includes: a step (1) of imaging the subject at a plurality of imaging positions to acquire acquired three-dimensional point cloud information on the subject, two-dimensional image information, and imaging position coordinate information at each of the imaging positions, a step (2) of generating a single set of integrated three-dimensional point cloud information on the subject by using a plurality of sets of the acquired three-dimensional point cloud information and a plurality of sets of the imaging position coordinate information, a step (3) of determining a position of a specific site on the subject that is predetermined in a plurality of sets of the two-dimensional image information, and a step (4) of estimating a position of a diagnostic site on the subject that is subjected to the medical practice in the integrated three-dimensional point cloud information by using anatomical statistic information and the position of the specific site on the subject.