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 …

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 …

Autonomous robotic screening of tubular structures based only on real-time ultrasound imaging feedback

Z Jiang, Z Li, M Grimm, M Zhou… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound (US) imaging is widely employed for diagnosis and staging of vascular diseases,
mainly due to its high availability and the fact it does not emit ionizing radiation. However …

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 …

VesNet-RL: Simulation-based reinforcement learning for real-world US probe navigation

Y Bi, Z Jiang, Y Gao, T Wendler… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrasound (US) is one of the most common medical imaging modalities since it is radiation-
free, low-cost, and real-time. In freehand US examinations, sonographers often navigate a …

Defcor-net: physics-aware ultrasound deformation correction

Z Jiang, Y Zhou, D Cao, N Navab - Medical Image Analysis, 2023 - Elsevier
The recovery of morphologically accurate anatomical images from deformed ones is
challenging in ultrasound (US) image acquisition, but crucial to accurate and consistent …

Precise repositioning of robotic ultrasound: Improving registration-based motion compensation using ultrasound confidence optimization

Z Jiang, N Danis, Y Bi, M Zhou… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic ultrasound (US) imaging has been seen as a promising solution to overcome the
limitations of free-hand US examinations, ie, interoperator variability. However, the fact that …

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

Z Jiang, Y Gao, L **e, 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 …

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 …