Robotic ultrasound imaging: State-of-the-art and future perspectives

Z Jiang, SE Salcudean, N Navab - Medical image analysis, 2023 - Elsevier
Ultrasound (US) is one of the most widely used modalities for clinical intervention and
diagnosis due to the merits of providing non-invasive, radiation-free, and real-time images …

Machine learning in robotic ultrasound imaging: Challenges and perspectives

Y Bi, Z Jiang, F Duelmer, D Huang… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews recent advances in intelligent robotic ultrasound imaging systems. We
begin by presenting the commonly employed robotic mechanisms and control techniques in …

Defcor-net: physics-aware ultrasound deformation correction

Z Jiang, Y Zhou, D Cao, N Navab - Medical Image Analysis, 2023 - Elsevier
The recovery of morphologically accurate anatomical images from deformed ones is
challenging in ultrasound (US) image acquisition, but crucial to accurate and consistent …

Thoracic cartilage ultrasound-ct registration using dense skeleton graph

Z Jiang, C Li, X Lil, N Navab - 2023 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous ultrasound (US) imaging has gained increased interest recently, and it has
been seen as a potential solution to overcome the limitations of free-hand US exami-nations …

Autonomous Path Planning for Intercostal Robotic Ultrasound Imaging Using Reinforcement Learning

Y Bi, C Qian, Z Zhang, N Navab, Z Jiang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.09927, 2024 - arxiv.org
Ultrasound (US) has been widely used in daily clinical practice for screening internal organs
and guiding interventions. However, due to the acoustic shadow cast by the subcutaneous …

[HTML][HTML] Review of robotic systems for thoracoabdominal puncture interventional surgery

C Wang, L Guo, J Zhu, L Zhu, C Li, H Zhu, A Song… - APL …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Cancer, with high morbidity and high mortality, is one of the major burdens threatening
human health globally. Intervention procedures via percutaneous puncture have been …

Class-Aware Cartilage Segmentation for Autonomous US-CT Registration in Robotic Intercostal Ultrasound Imaging

Z Jiang, Y Kang, Y Bi, X Li, C Li, N Navab - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Ultrasound imaging has been widely used in clinical examinations owing to the advantages
of being portable, real-time, and radiation-free. Considering the potential of extensive …

SOCR: Simultaneous Overlap Prediction and Corresponding Estimation for Point Cloud Registration in Real-Time

Z Shen, X Lu, Y Wang, J Nie - IEEE Robotics and Automation …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Point cloud registration is a crucial task in 3D computer vision. Correspondence-based
methods highly rely on the quality of matching points. However, existing methods still suffer …

Feasibility of Pointcloud-based Ultrasound-CT Registration towards Automated, Robot-Assisted Image-Guidance in Spine Surgery*

X Ma, X Zhang, Y Wang, C Nycz… - … on Medical Robotics …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Image-guidance has been shown to improve spine surgical accuracy and patient outcome.
Such image guidance can be achieved by registering low-cost, realtime, and radiation-free …