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 …

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 …

Review of robot-assisted medical ultrasound imaging systems: Technology and clinical applications

Q Huang, J Zhou, ZJ Li - Neurocomputing, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Robot-assisted Medical Ultrasound Imaging Systems (RMUIS) leverage the
accuracy and stability of robotic motion and offer the potential to standardize medical …

Automatic normal positioning of robotic ultrasound probe based only on confidence map optimization and force measurement

Z Jiang, M Grimm, M Zhou, J Esteban… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Acquiring good image quality is one of the main challenges for fully-automatic robot-assisted
ultrasound systems (RUSS). The presented method aims at overcoming this challenge for …

Full-coverage path planning and stable interaction control for automated robotic breast ultrasound scanning

Z Wang, B Zhao, P Zhang, L Yao… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound examination is widely used for diagnosis of breast cancer, which requires a full-
coverage scan of the whole organ and stable probe–breast interaction for high-quality …

Ultra-nerf: Neural radiance fields for ultrasound imaging

M Wysocki, MF Azampour, C Eilers… - … Imaging with Deep …, 2024 - proceedings.mlr.press
We present a physics-enhanced implicit neural representation (INR) for ultrasound (US)
imaging that learns tissue properties from overlapping US sweeps. Our proposed method …

Autonomous scanning target localization for robotic lung ultrasound imaging

X Ma, Z Zhang, HK Zhang - 2021 IEEE/RSJ International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Under the ceaseless global COVID-19 pandemic, lung ultrasound (LUS) is the emerging
way for effective diagnosis and severeness evaluation of respiratory diseases. However …

Tele-operative low-cost robotic lung ultrasound scanning platform for triage of COVID-19 patients

R Tsumura, JW Hardin, K Bimbraw… - IEEE robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (COVID-19) has become a
pandemic of epic proportions, and global response to prepare health systems worldwide is …

Tracked 3D ultrasound and deep neural network-based thyroid segmentation reduce interobserver variability in thyroid volumetry

M Krönke, C Eilers, D Dimova, M Köhler, G Buschner… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Thyroid volumetry is crucial in the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of thyroid diseases.
However, conventional thyroid volumetry with 2D ultrasound is highly operator-dependent …