“The world’s first: Our country successfully performed artificial intelligence ultrasound robot-guided occlusion surgery for congenital heart disease.”
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On September 5, 2026, the Cardiovascular Disease Department of the Sixth Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital, in collaboration with a research team from Tsinghua University, successfully performed the world’s first artificial intelligence ultrasound robot-guided interventional occlusion for congenital heart disease. The operation was led by the team led by Director Zhu Hang, overcoming the limitation of traditional interventional robots, which could only deliver instruments. It achieved two-way intelligent coordination between image recognition and surgical operations. The system used a robotic arm to perform stable and autonomous ultrasonic scanning, automatically identifying lesions and precisely defining the boundaries of defects, real-time constructing a three-dimensional anatomical model of the heart, and planning safe surgical paths. During the operation, the intelligent robot independently completed image acquisition, lesion localization, and real-time navigation, assisting the team in accurately implanting occluders. This effectively avoided human operational errors, significantly improving the accuracy and safety of complex congenital heart disease interventional surgeries, optimizing the process, and reducing the duration.
On the morning of September 5, the Cardiovascular Disease Department of the Sixth Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital successfully completed the world’s first interventional occlusion procedure for congenital heart disease guided by artificial intelligence ultrasound robots. This operation was carried out in collaboration with the research team at Tsinghua University and the team led by Director Zhu Hang. It broke through the limitation of traditional interventional robots, which could only deliver instruments, and achieved two-way intelligent coordination between image recognition and surgical operations. The system used a robotic arm to perform stable and autonomous ultrasound scanning, automatically identified lesions using artificial intelligence algorithms, accurately outlined the boundaries of defects, and real-time constructed a three-dimensional anatomical model of the heart along with planning a safe surgical path. During the operation, the intelligent robot independently completed image acquisition, lesion positioning, and real-time navigation, assisting the team in precisely implanting the occluder. This effectively avoided human operational errors, significantly improving the accuracy and safety of complex congenital heart disease interventional surgeries, optimizing the process, and reducing the duration.