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Hiroyuki Tsukihara is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of robotics and medical ultrasound, dedicated to technologizing and digitalizing medical diagnostic and therapeutic skills. His core research areas include robotic ultrasound systems, medical image processing, and skill transfer from physicians to machines. Tsukihara’s major contributions center on developing compact, portable ultrasound robots for home healthcare and bed-type diagnostic and therapeutic robots that optimize contact stability with the human body. His work on a VS ultrasound diagnostic system with kidney image evaluation functions (8 citations) and a novel convolutional neural network method for complementing acoustic shadow regions in ultrasound-guided therapy (2 citations) demonstrates his commitment to enhancing diagnostic accuracy. Notably, his 2009 foundational paper on robot vision technology for medical skill digitalization (7 citations) established the conceptual framework for extracting and reconstructing medical functions. Tsukihara’s recent research on image search strategies via visual servoing for robotic kidney ultrasound imaging (2023) addresses the challenge of organ movement during respiration, showcasing his ongoing innovation in making ultrasound diagnostics more accessible and reliable for home healthcare settings.