Medical instrument detection in ultrasound: a review

H Yang, C Shan, AF Kolen, PHN de With - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2023 - Springer
Medical instrument detection is essential for computer-assisted interventions, since it
facilitates clinicians to find instruments efficiently with a better interpretation, thereby …

Sensing technologies for guidance during needle-based interventions

Z Cheng, M Koskinopoulou, S Bano… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Needle intervention is widely employed in clinical practices, such as biopsies, regional
anesthesia, blood sampling, neurosurgery, and brachytherapy. Traditional needle insertion …

Multi-needle detection in 3D ultrasound images using unsupervised order-graph regularized sparse dictionary learning

Y Zhang, X He, Z Tian, JJ Jeong, Y Lei… - IEEE transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate and automatic multi-needle detection in three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound (US) is
a key step of treatment planning for US-guided brachytherapy. However, most current …

Automatic multi‐catheter detection using deeply supervised convolutional neural network in MRI‐guided HDR prostate brachytherapy

X Dai, Y Lei, Y Zhang, RLJ Qiu, T Wang… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose High‐dose‐rate (HDR) brachytherapy is an established technique to be used as
monotherapy option or focal boost in conjunction with external beam radiation therapy …

Multi‐needle localization with attention U‐net in US‐guided HDR prostate brachytherapy

Y Zhang, Y Lei, RLJ Qiu, T Wang, H Wang… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Ultrasound (US)‐guided high dose rate (HDR) prostate brachytherapy requests the
clinicians to place HDR needles (catheters) into the prostate gland under transrectal US …

[HTML][HTML] Improving needle visibility in LED-based photoacoustic imaging using deep learning with semi-synthetic datasets

M Shi, T Zhao, SJ West, AE Desjardins, T Vercauteren… - Photoacoustics, 2022 - Elsevier
Photoacoustic imaging has shown great potential for guiding minimally invasive procedures
by accurate identification of critical tissue targets and invasive medical devices (such as …

Automatic and accurate needle detection in 2D ultrasound during robot-assisted needle insertion process

S Chen, Y Lin, Z Li, F Wang, Q Cao - International Journal of Computer …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose Robot-assisted needle insertion guided by 2D ultrasound (US) can effectively
improve the accuracy and success rate of clinical puncture. To this end, automatic and …

Deep learning segmentation of general interventional tools in two‐dimensional ultrasound images

DJ Gillies, JR Rodgers, I Gyacskov, P Roy… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Many interventional procedures require the precise placement of needles or
therapy applicators (tools) to correctly achieve planned targets for optimal diagnosis or …

Robust needle localization and enhancement algorithm for ultrasound by deep learning and beam steering methods

J Gao, P Liu, GD Liu, L Zhang - Journal of Computer Science and …, 2021 - Springer
Ultrasound (US) imaging is clinically used to guide needle insertions because it is safe, real-
time, and low cost. The localization of the needle in the ultrasound image, however, remains …

Automatic multi-needle localization in ultrasound images using large margin mask RCNN for ultrasound-guided prostate brachytherapy

Y Zhang, Z Tian, Y Lei, T Wang, P Patel… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Multi-needle localization in ultrasound (US) images is a crucial step of treatment planning for
US-guided prostate brachytherapy. However, current computer-aided technologies are …