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 …

Intelligent robotic sonographer: Mutual information-based disentangled reward learning from few demonstrations

Z Jiang, Y Bi, M Zhou, Y Hu, M Burke… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Ultrasound (US) imaging is widely used for biometric measurement and diagnosis of internal
organs due to the advantages of being real-time and radiation-free. However, due to inter …

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 …

Design and quantitative assessment of teleoperation-based human–robot collaboration method for robot-assisted sonography

W Si, N Wang, C Yang - IEEE Transactions on Automation …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Tele-echography has emerged as a promising and effective solution, leveraging the
expertise of sonographers and the autonomy of robots to perform ultrasound scanning for …

Skeleton graph-based ultrasound-ct non-rigid registration

Z Jiang, X Li, C Zhang, Y Bi… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous ultrasound (US) scanning has attracted increased attention, and it has been
seen as a potential solution to overcome the limitations of conventional US examinations …

Needle segmentation using gan: Restoring thin instrument visibility in robotic ultrasound

Z Jiang, X Li, X Chu, A Karlas, Y Bi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound-guided percutaneous needle insertion is a standard procedure employed in both
biopsy and ablation in clinical practices. However, due to the complex interaction between …

Robot-assisted deep venous thrombosis ultrasound examination using virtual fixture

D Huang, C Yang, M Zhou, A Karlas… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT) is a common vascular disease with blood clots inside deep
veins, which may block blood flow or even cause a life-threatening pulmonary embolism. A …

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 …

Autonomous respiratory motion compensated robot for CT-guided abdominal radiofrequency ablations

AL Gunderman, M Musa… - … on Medical Robotics …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is an effective minimally-invasive treatment used for a variety
of solid tumor cancers, including lung, breast, kidney, pancreatic, and liver. However …