Motion magnification in robotic sonography: enabling pulsation-aware artery segmentation

D Huang, Y Bi, N Navab, Z Jiang - 2023 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound (US) imaging is widely used for diagnosing and monitoring arterial diseases,
mainly due to the advantages of being non-invasive, radiation-free, and real-time. In order to …

Dopus-net: Quality-aware robotic ultrasound imaging based on doppler signal

Z Jiang, F Duelmer, N Navab - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Medical ultrasound (US) is widely used to evaluate and stage vascular diseases, in
particular for the preliminary screening program, due to the advantage of being radiation …

Autonomous robotic screening of tubular structures based only on real-time ultrasound imaging feedback

Z Jiang, Z Li, M Grimm, M Zhou… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound (US) imaging is widely employed for diagnosis and staging of vascular diseases,
mainly due to its high availability and the fact it does not emit ionizing radiation. However …

[HTML][HTML] Robotized ultrasound imaging of the peripheral arteries–a phantom study

F Von Haxthausen, J Hagenah… - Current Directions in …, 2020 - degruyter.com
The first choice in diagnostic imaging for patients suffering from peripheral arterial disease
(PAD) is 2D ultrasound (US). However, for a proper imaging process, a skilled and …

A novel robotic system for ultrasound-guided peripheral vascular localization

G Ma, SR Oca, Y Zhu, PJ Codd… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present an autonomous RGB-D and 2D ultrasound-guided robotic system
for collecting 3D localized volumes of peripheral vessels. This compact design, with …

Segmentation of vessels in ultra high frequency ultrasound sequences using contextual memory

TS Mathai, V Gorantla, J Galeotti - … Shenzhen, China, October 13–17, 2019 …, 2019 - Springer
High resolution images provided by Ultra High Frequency Ultrasound (UHFUS) scanners
permit the vessel-based measurement of the Intimal-Media Thickness (IMT) in small vessels …

Robot-Assisted Autonomous Ultrasound Imaging for Carotid Artery

Q Huang, B Gao, M Wang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cardiovascular disease is known as the number one cause of death worldwide. Ultrasound
imaging is widely used to assess and predict the risk of cardiovascular disease. Extensive …

Robust segmentation of arterial walls in intravascular ultrasound images using Dual Path U-Net

J Yang, M Faraji, A Basu - Ultrasonics, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract A Fully Convolutional Network (FCN) based deep architecture called Dual Path U-
Net (DPU-Net) is proposed for automatic segmentation of the lumen and media-adventitia in …

Robotically surgical vessel localization using robust hybrid video motion magnification

W Fan, Z Zheng, W Zeng, Y Chen… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vessel and neurovascular bundle localization plays an essential role in endoscopic and
robotic surgery. It still remains challenging to spare vessels and neurovascular bundles to …

Autonomous robotic ultrasound vascular imaging system with decoupled control strategy for external-vision-free environments

G Ning, H Liang, X Zhang, H Liao - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Ultrasound (US) probes scan over the surface of the human body to acquire US
images in clinical vascular US diagnosis. However, due to the deformation and specificity of …