This class allowed me to grow as an engineer and do meaningful work building a semi-autonomous ultrasound robot. My group worked with Dr. Park in his robotics lab to program a JACO robotic arm to give semi-autonomous ultrasounds. The purpose of the ultrasound robot was to perform ultrasound imaging on cancer patients receiving chemotherapy treatment to monitor for signs of cardiac toxicity. When a patient becomes cardiac toxic, the left ventricular wall in the heart swells and decreases the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), which can lead to heart complications such as heart arrhythmia. Chemotherapy sessions last several hours, so having the robot monitor the patient allows clinicians the ability to perform tasks elsewhere in a hospital setting or even monitor several patients at once.
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