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most citedEnhancing Patient Acceptance of Robotic Ultrasound through Conversational Virtual Agent and Immersive Visualizations

12 citations · 17 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.HC2026

Feasibility of Augmented Reality-Guided Robotic Ultrasound with Cone-Beam CT Integration for Spine Procedures

Tianyu Song, Felix Pabst, Feng Li +5

Accurate needle placement in spine interventions is critical for effective pain management, yet it depends on reliable identification of anatomical landmarks and careful trajectory…

cs.HC2026

Comparative Study of Ultrasound Shape Completion and CBCT-Based AR Workflows for Spinal Needle Interventions

Tianyu Song, Feng Li, Felix Pabst +4

Purpose: This study compares two augmented reality (AR)-guided imaging workflows, one based on ultrasound shape completion and the other on cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT), fo…

physics.med-ph2026

Ultrasound-Guided Real-Time Spinal Motion Visualization for Spinal Instability Assessment

Feng Li, Yuan Bi, Tianyu Song +2

Purpose: Spinal instability is a widespread condition that causes pain, fatigue, and restricted mobility, profoundly affecting patients' quality of life. In clinical practice, the…

cs.HC2025

Intelligent Virtual Sonographer (IVS): Enhancing Physician-Robot-Patient Communication

Tianyu Song, Feng Li, Yuan Bi +6

The advancement and maturity of large language models (LLMs) and robotics have unlocked vast potential for human-computer interaction, particularly in the field of robotic ultrasou…

cs.HC2025★ 12 cited

Enhancing Patient Acceptance of Robotic Ultrasound through Conversational Virtual Agent and Immersive Visualizations

Tianyu Song, Felix Pabst, Ulrich Eck +1

Robotic ultrasound systems can enhance medical diagnostics, but patient acceptance is a challenge. We propose a system combining an AI-powered conversational virtual agent with thr…

cs.RO2022★ 5 cited

STTAR: Surgical Tool Tracking using off-the-shelf Augmented Reality Head-Mounted Displays

Alejandro Martin-Gomez, Haowei Li, Tianyu Song +6

The use of Augmented Reality (AR) for navigation purposes has shown beneficial in assisting physicians during the performance of surgical procedures. These applications commonly re…

cs.CV2020

Spatiotemporal-Aware Augmented Reality: Redefining HCI in Image-Guided Therapy

Javad Fotouhi, Arian Mehrfard, Tianyu Song +5

Suboptimal interaction with patient data and challenges in mastering 3D anatomy based on ill-posed 2D interventional images are essential concerns in image-guided therapies. Augmen…

cs.RO2019

Reflective-AR Display: An Interaction Methodology for Virtual-Real Alignment in Medical Robotics

Javad Fotouhi, Tianyu Song, Arian Mehrfard +8

Robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery has shown to improve patient outcomes, as well as reduce complications and recovery time for several clinical applications. While increasi…