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From Self-Normal-Positioning to Omni-Directional Tracking: Real-Time Surface Modeling Enabled Probe Tilt Control for Robotic Ultrasound Imaging
Xihan Ma, Haichong Zhang
Ultrasound (US) provides real-time, radiation-free imaging, but the image quality depends strongly on how the probe is oriented against the patient body. Robotic US can reduce oper…
Democratization of Real-time Multi-Spectral Photoacoustic Imaging: Open-Sourced System Architecture for OPOTEK Phocus & Verasonics Vantage Combination
Ryo Murakami, Yichuan Tang, Haichong K. Zhang
Real-time multi-spectral photoacoustic imaging (RT-mPAI) often suffers from synchronization instabilities when interfacing fast-tuning lasers with data acquisition platforms execut…
Towards Autonomous Robotic Kidney Ultrasound: Spatial-Efficient Volumetric Imaging via Template Guided Optimal Pivoting
Xihan Ma, Haichong Zhang
Medical ultrasound (US) imaging is a frontline tool for the diagnosis of kidney diseases. However, traditional freehand imaging procedure suffers from inconsistent, operator-depend…
A-SEE2.0: Active-Sensing End-Effector for Robotic Ultrasound Systems with Dense Contact Surface Perception Enabled Probe Orientation Adjustment
Yernar Zhetpissov, Xihan Ma, Kehan Yang +1
Conventional freehand ultrasound (US) imaging is highly dependent on the skill of the operator, often leading to inconsistent results and increased physical demand on sonographers.…
Simultaneous Estimation of Manipulation Skill and Hand Grasp Force from Forearm Ultrasound Images
Keshav Bimbraw, Srikar Nekkanti, Daniel B. Tiller +4
Accurate estimation of human hand configuration and the forces they exert is critical for effective teleoperation and skill transfer in robotic manipulation. A deeper understanding…
SPADE: Spectroscopic Photoacoustic Denoising using an Analytical and Data-free Enhancement Framework
Fangzhou Lin, Shang Gao, Yichuan Tang +6
Spectroscopic photoacoustic (sPA) imaging uses multiple wavelengths to differentiate chromophores based on their unique optical absorption spectra. This technique has been widely a…
Deep Loss Convexification for Learning Iterative Models
Ziming Zhang, Yuping Shao, Yiqing Zhang +3
Iterative methods such as iterative closest point (ICP) for point cloud registration often suffer from bad local optimality (e.g. saddle points), due to the nature of nonconvex opt…
Hand Gesture Classification Based on Forearm Ultrasound Video Snippets Using 3D Convolutional Neural Networks
Keshav Bimbraw, Ankit Talele, Haichong K. Zhang
Ultrasound based hand movement estimation is a crucial area of research with applications in human-machine interaction. Forearm ultrasound offers detailed information about muscle…
Improving Intersession Reproducibility for Forearm Ultrasound based Hand Gesture Classification through an Incremental Learning Approach
Keshav Bimbraw, Jack Rothenberg, Haichong K. Zhang
Ultrasound images of the forearm can be used to classify hand gestures towards developing human machine interfaces. In our previous work, we have demonstrated gesture classificatio…
Forearm Ultrasound based Gesture Recognition on Edge
Keshav Bimbraw, Haichong K. Zhang, Bashima Islam
Ultrasound imaging of the forearm has demonstrated significant potential for accurate hand gesture classification. Despite this progress, there has been limited focus on developing…
Guiding the Last Centimeter: Novel Anatomy-Aware Probe Servoing for Standardized Imaging Plane Navigation in Robotic Lung Ultrasound
Xihan Ma, Mingjie Zeng, Jeffrey C. Hill +3
Navigating the ultrasound (US) probe to the standardized imaging plane (SIP) for image acquisition is a critical but operator-dependent task in conventional freehand diagnostic US.…
Simultaneous Estimation of Hand Configurations and Finger Joint Angles using Forearm Ultrasound
Keshav Bimbraw, Christopher J. Nycz, Matt Schueler +2
With the advancement in computing and robotics, it is necessary to develop fluent and intuitive methods for interacting with digital systems, augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) inte…
Actuated Reflector-Based Three-dimensional Ultrasound Imaging with Adaptive-Delay Synthetic Aperture Focusing
Yichuan Tang, Ryosuke Tsumura, Jakub T. Kaminski +1
Three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound (US) imaging addresses the limitation in field-of-view (FOV) in conventional two-dimensional (2D) US imaging by providing 3D viewing of the anatom…
Prediction of Metacarpophalangeal joint angles and Classification of Hand configurations based on Ultrasound Imaging of the Forearm
Keshav Bimbraw, Christopher Julius Nycz, Matt Schueler +2
With the advancement in computing and robotics, it is necessary to develop fluent and intuitive methods for interacting with digital systems, AR/VR interfaces, and physical robotic…
Tele-operative Robotic Lung Ultrasound Scanning Platform for Triage of COVID-19 Patients
Ryosuke Tsumura, John W. Hardin, Keshav Bimbraw +6
Novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a pandemic of epic proportions and a global response to prepare health systems worldwide is of utmost…