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MagServo: Uncertainty-Resilient Hierarchical Magnetic Servoing via Learned Latent Representations
Yuhan Tan, Yameng Zhang, Pei Liu +2
Magnetic navigation provides contact-free and line-of-sight-independent feedback for robotic systems, yet existing approaches typically rely on explicit pose estimation or direct u…
Recon2Servo: Robotic Ultrasound Visual Servoing via Learned Image-to-Motion Inference
Yameng Zhang, Pei Liu, Dianye Huang +5
Ultrasound visual servoing is essential for autonomous robotic ultrasound, yet 6-DoF probe control from 2D B-mode images remains challenging due to limited and ambiguous out-of-pla…
Dyadic Partnership(DP): A Missing Link Towards Full Autonomy in Medical Robotics
Nassir Navab, Zhongliang Jiang
For the past decades medical robotic solutions were mostly based on the concept of tele-manipulation. While their design was extremely intelligent, allowing for better access, impr…
Open-H-Embodiment: A Large-Scale Dataset for Enabling Foundation Models in Medical Robotics
Open-H-Embodiment Consortium, :, Nigel Nelson +213
Autonomous medical robots hold promise to improve patient outcomes, reduce provider workload, democratize access to care, and enable superhuman precision. However, autonomous medic…
From Scanning Guidelines to Action: A Robotic Ultrasound Agent with LLM-Based Reasoning
Yuan Bi, Yiping Zhou, Pei Liu +3
Robotic ultrasound offers advantages over free-hand scanning, including improved reproducibility and reduced operator dependency. In clinical practice, US acquisition relies heavil…
DAISS: Phase-Aware Imitation Learning for Dual-Arm Robotic Ultrasound-Guided Interventions
Feng Li, Pei Liu, Shiting Wang +4
Imitation learning has shown strong potential for automating complex robotic manipulation. In medical robotics, ultrasound-guided needle insertion demands precise bimanual coordina…
RAG-RUSS: A Retrieval-Augmented Robotic Ultrasound for Autonomous Carotid Examination
Dianye Huang, Ziping Cong, Nassir Navab +1
Robotic ultrasound (US) has recently attracted increasing attention as a means to overcome the limitations of conventional US examinations, such as the strong operator dependence.…
Improving Robustness to Out-of-Distribution States in Imitation Learning via Deep Koopman-Boosted Diffusion Policy
Dianye Huang, Nassir Navab, Zhongliang Jiang
Integrating generative models with action chunking has shown significant promise in imitation learning for robotic manipulation. However, the existing diffusion-based paradigm ofte…
Freehand 3D Ultrasound Imaging: Sim-in-the-Loop Probe Pose Optimization via Visual Servoing
Yameng Zhang, Dianye Huang, Max Q. -H. Meng +2
Freehand 3D ultrasound (US) imaging using conventional 2D probes offers flexibility and accessibility for diverse clinical applications but faces challenges in accurate probe pose…
Vibration-Based Energy Metric for Restoring Needle Alignment in Autonomous Robotic Ultrasound
Zhongyu Chen, Chenyang Li, Xuesong Li +5
Precise needle alignment is essential for percutaneous needle insertion in robotic ultrasound-guided procedures. However, inherent challenges such as speckle noise, needle-like art…
Tactile-Guided Robotic Ultrasound: Mapping Preplanned Scan Paths for Intercostal Imaging
Yifan Zhang, Dianye Huang, Nassir Navab +1
Medical ultrasound (US) imaging is widely used in clinical examinations due to its portability, real-time capability, and radiation-free nature. To address inter- and intra-operato…
Robotic CBCT Meets Robotic Ultrasound
Feng Li, Yuan Bi, Dianye Huang +2
The multi-modality imaging system offers optimal fused images for safe and precise interventions in modern clinical practices, such as computed tomography - ultrasound (CT-US) guid…
Gaze-Guided Robotic Vascular Ultrasound Leveraging Human Intention Estimation
Yuan Bi, Yang Su, Nassir Navab +1
Medical ultrasound has been widely used to examine vascular structure in modern clinical practice. However, traditional ultrasound examination often faces challenges related to int…
Needle Segmentation Using GAN: Restoring Thin Instrument Visibility in Robotic Ultrasound
Zhongliang Jiang, Xuesong Li, Xiangyu Chu +5
Ultrasound-guided percutaneous needle insertion is a standard procedure employed in both biopsy and ablation in clinical practices. However, due to the complex interaction between…
Autonomous Path Planning for Intercostal Robotic Ultrasound Imaging Using Reinforcement Learning
Yuan Bi, Cheng Qian, Zhicheng Zhang +2
Ultrasound (US) has been widely used in daily clinical practice for screening internal organs and guiding interventions. However, due to the acoustic shadow cast by the subcutaneou…
Robot-Assisted Deep Venous Thrombosis Ultrasound Examination using Virtual Fixture
Dianye Huang, Chenguang Yang, Mingchuan Zhou +3
Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT) is a common vascular disease with blood clots inside deep veins, which may block blood flow or even cause a life-threatening pulmonary embolism. A typi…
Machine Learning in Robotic Ultrasound Imaging: Challenges and Perspectives
Yuan Bi, Zhongliang Jiang, Felix Duelmer +2
This article reviews the recent advances in intelligent robotic ultrasound (US) imaging systems. We commence by presenting the commonly employed robotic mechanisms and control tech…
Robotic Ultrasound Imaging: State-of-the-Art and Future Perspectives
Zhongliang Jiang, Septimiu E. Salcudean, Nassir Navab
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.…
Intelligent Robotic Sonographer: Mutual Information-based Disentangled Reward Learning from Few Demonstrations
Zhongliang Jiang, Yuan Bi, Mingchuan Zhou +3
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…
Precise Repositioning of Robotic Ultrasound: Improving Registration-based Motion Compensation using Ultrasound Confidence Optimization
Zhongliang Jiang, Nehil Danis, Yuan Bi +4
Robotic ultrasound (US) imaging has been seen as a promising solution to overcome the limitations of free-hand US examinations, i.e., inter-operator variability. However, the fact…
Towards Autonomous Atlas-based Ultrasound Acquisitions in Presence of Articulated Motion
Zhongliang Jiang, Yuan Gao, Le Xie +1
Robotic ultrasound (US) imaging aims at overcoming some of the limitations of free-hand US examinations, e.g. difficulty in guaranteeing intra- and inter-operator repeatability. Ho…
Motion-Aware Robotic 3D Ultrasound
Zhongliang Jiang, Hanyu Wang, Zhenyu Li +7
Robotic three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound (US) imaging has been employed to overcome the drawbacks of traditional US examinations, such as high inter-operator variability and lack…
Autonomous Robotic Screening of Tubular Structures based only on Real-Time Ultrasound Imaging Feedback
Zhongliang Jiang, Zhenyu Li, Matthias Grimm +6
Ultrasound (US) imaging is widely employed for diagnosis and staging of peripheral vascular diseases (PVD), mainly due to its high availability and the fact it does not emit radiat…
Model-Based Compensation of Moving Tissue for State Recognition in Robotic-Assisted Pedicle Drilling
Zhongliang Jiang, Long Lei, Yu Sun +5
Drilling is one of the hardest parts of pedicle screw fixation, and it is one of the most dangerous operations because inaccurate screw placement would injury vital tissues, partic…