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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Towards autonomous atlas-based ultrasound acquisitions in presence of articulated motion

Z Jiang, Y Gao, L Xie, N Navab - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic ultrasound (US) imaging aims at overcoming some of the limitations of free-hand US
examinations, eg difficulty in guaranteeing intra-and inter-operator repeatability. However …

Fully automated thyroid ultrasound screening utilizing multi-modality image and anatomical prior

J Zhou, H Tian, W Wang - Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2024 - Elsevier
There is a high prevalence of thyroid nodules in the general population. Early detection is
essential for the treatment of malignant thyroid nodules. Ultrasound has the advantage of …

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 …

A novel ultrasound robot with force/torque measurement and control for safe and efficient scanning

X Bao, S Wang, L Zheng, RJ Housden… - IEEE transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Medical ultrasound (US) is of increasing importance in medical diagnosis and intraoperative
assistance and possesses great potential advantages when integrated with robotics …

Inverse-reinforcement-learning-based robotic ultrasound active compliance control in uncertain environments

G Ning, H Liang, X Zhang, H Liao - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic ultrasound systems (RUSs) have gained increasing attention because they can
automate repetitive procedures and relieve operators' workloads. However, the complexity …