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 …

An overview of systems and techniques for autonomous robotic ultrasound acquisitions

K Li, Y Xu, MQH Meng - IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound (US) acquisition in standard clinical procedures requires manual operation of the
probe based on the interpretation of the image. A robotic system for autonomous US …

Robot-assisted medical imaging: A review

SE Salcudean, H Moradi, DG Black… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robot-assisted medical imaging entails the use of a robot to acquire a medical image.
Examples include robot-assisted endoscopic camera imaging, ultrasound imaging where …

Robotic arm based automatic ultrasound scanning for three-dimensional imaging

Q Huang, J Lan, X Li - IEEE Transactions on Industrial …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a human skin inspired automatic robotic ultrasound (US) system for
three-dimensional (3-D) imaging. A depth camera was adopted to capture the point cloud of …

Medical robotics for ultrasound imaging: current systems and future trends

F von Haxthausen, S Böttger, D Wulff, J Hagenah… - Current robotics …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review This review provides an overview of the most recent robotic
ultrasound systems that have contemporary emerged over the past five years, highlighting …

Towards MRI-based autonomous robotic US acquisitions: a first feasibility study

C Hennersperger, B Fuerst, S Virga… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic ultrasound has the potential to assist and guide physicians during interventions. In
this work, we present a set of methods and a workflow to enable autonomous MRI-guided …

Autonomic robotic ultrasound imaging system based on reinforcement learning

G Ning, X Zhang, H Liao - IEEE transactions on biomedical …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: In this paper, we introduce an autonomous robotic ultrasound (US) imaging
system based on reinforcement learning (RL). The proposed system and framework are …

Piezoelectric motors, an overview

K Spanner, B Koc - Actuators, 2016 - mdpi.com
Piezoelectric motors are used in many industrial and commercial applications. Various
piezoelectric motors are available in the market. All of the piezoelectric motors use the …

An ultrasound robotic system using the commercial robot UR5

K Mathiassen, JE Fjellin, K Glette, PK Hol… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The use of robots in health care has increased dramatically over the last decade. One area
of research has been to use robots to conduct ultrasound examinations, either controlled by …

Automatic 3-D imaging and measurement of human spines with a robotic ultrasound system

C Yang, M Jiang, M Chen, M Fu, J Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Comparing with X-ray, ultrasound imaging has the advantages of no radiation and easy
operation, etc., which is expected to be an effective alternative in clinical assessment for the …