9 papers
UltraStar: Semantic-Aware Star Graph Modeling for Echocardiography Navigation
Teng Wang, Haojun Jiang, Chenxi Li +6
Echocardiography is critical for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases, yet the shortage of skilled sonographers hinders timely patient care, due to high operational difficulties. Con…
UltraHiT: A Hierarchical Transformer Architecture for Generalizable Internal Carotid Artery Robotic Ultrasonography
Teng Wang, Haojun Jiang, Yuxuan Wang +4
Carotid ultrasound is crucial for the assessment of cerebrovascular health, particularly the internal carotid artery (ICA). While previous research has explored automating carotid…
VA-Adapter: Adapting Ultrasound Foundation Model to Echocardiography Probe Guidance
Teng Wang, Haojun Jiang, Yuxuan Wang +4
Echocardiography is a critical tool for detecting heart diseases, yet its steep operational difficulty causes a shortage of skilled personnel. Probe guidance systems, which assist…
CheXWorld: Exploring Image World Modeling for Radiograph Representation Learning
Yang Yue, Yulin Wang, Chenxin Tao +3
Humans can develop internal world models that encode common sense knowledge, telling them how the world works and predicting the consequences of their actions. This concept has eme…
EchoWorld: Learning Motion-Aware World Models for Echocardiography Probe Guidance
Yang Yue, Yulin Wang, Haojun Jiang +3
Echocardiography is crucial for cardiovascular disease detection but relies heavily on experienced sonographers. Echocardiography probe guidance systems, which provide real-time mo…
A Unified Interaction Control Framework for Safe Robotic Ultrasound Scanning with Human-Intention-Aware Compliance
Xiangjie Yan, Shaqi Luo, Yongpeng Jiang +6
The ultrasound scanning robot operates in environments where frequent human-robot interactions occur. Most existing control methods for ultrasound scanning address only one specifi…
UltraSeP: Sequence-aware Pre-training for Echocardiography Probe Movement Guidance
Haojun Jiang, Teng Wang, Zhenguo Sun +8
Echocardiography is an essential medical technique for diagnosing cardiovascular diseases, but its high operational complexity has led to a shortage of trained professionals. To ad…
Structure-aware World Model for Probe Guidance via Large-scale Self-supervised Pre-train
Haojun Jiang, Meng Li, Zhenguo Sun +5
The complex structure of the heart leads to significant challenges in echocardiography, especially in acquisition cardiac ultrasound images. Successful echocardiography requires a…
Cardiac Copilot: Automatic Probe Guidance for Echocardiography with World Model
Haojun Jiang, Zhenguo Sun, Ning Jia +5
Echocardiography is the only technique capable of real-time imaging of the heart and is vital for diagnosing the majority of cardiac diseases. However, there is a severe shortage o…