no code implementations • 15 Apr 2024 • Yuan Bi, Cheng Qian, Zhicheng Zhang, Nassir Navab, Zhongliang Jiang
Ultrasound (US) has been widely used in daily clinical practice for screening internal organs and guiding interventions.
no code implementations • 21 Mar 2024 • Chenyang Li, Dianye Huang, Angelos Karlas, Nassir Navab, Zhongliang Jiang
In clinical applications that involve ultrasound-guided intervention, the visibility of the needle can be severely impeded due to steep insertion and strong distractors such as speckle noise and anatomical occlusion.
1 code implementation • 4 Jan 2024 • Dianye Huang, Chenguang Yang, Mingchuan Zhou, Angelos Karlas, Nassir Navab, Zhongliang Jiang
To ensure the biometric measurements obtained in different examinations are comparable, the 6D scanning path is determined in a coarse-to-fine manner using both an external RGBD camera and US images.
1 code implementation • 7 Aug 2023 • Zhongliang Jiang, Yue Zhou, Dongliang Cao, Nassir Navab
The recovery of morphologically accurate anatomical images from deformed ones is challenging in ultrasound (US) image acquisition, but crucial to accurate and consistent diagnosis, particularly in the emerging field of computer-assisted diagnosis.
1 code implementation • 7 Jul 2023 • Zhongliang Jiang, Chenyang Li, Xuesong Li, Nassir Navab
To address this challenge, a graph-based non-rigid registration is proposed to enable transferring planned paths from the atlas to the current setup by explicitly considering subcutaneous bone surface features instead of the skin surface.
1 code implementation • 7 Jul 2023 • Dianye Huang, Yuan Bi, Nassir Navab, Zhongliang Jiang
To validate the proposed robotic US system for imaging arteries, experiments are carried out on volunteers' carotid and radial arteries.
1 code implementation • 7 Jul 2023 • Zhongliang Jiang, Yuan Bi, Mingchuan Zhou, Ying Hu, Michael Burke, Nassir Navab
The results demonstrated that the proposed advanced framework can robustly work on a variety of seen and unseen phantoms as well as in-vivo human carotid data.
1 code implementation • 15 May 2023 • Zhongliang Jiang, Felix Duelmer, Nassir Navab
The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach with the re-identification process can significantly improve the accuracy and robustness of the segmentation results (dice score: from 0:54 to 0:86; intersection over union: from 0:47 to 0:78).
no code implementations • 14 May 2023 • Zhongliang Jiang, Xuesong Li, Chenyu Zhang, Yuan Bi, Walter Stechele, Nassir Navab
Autonomous ultrasound (US) scanning has attracted increased attention, and it has been seen as a potential solution to overcome the limitations of conventional US examinations, such as inter-operator variations.
3 code implementations • 22 Mar 2023 • Yuan Bi, Zhongliang Jiang, Ricarda Clarenbach, Reza Ghotbi, Angelos Karlas, Nassir Navab
We validate the generalizability of the proposed domain-independent segmentation approach on several datasets with varying parameters and machines.
1 code implementation • 10 Aug 2022 • Zhongliang Jiang, Yuan Gao, Le Xie, Nassir Navab
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.
1 code implementation • 10 May 2022 • Yuan Bi, Zhongliang Jiang, Yuan Gao, Thomas Wendler, Angelos Karlas, Nassir Navab
The results demonstrate that proposed approach can effectively and accurately navigate the probe towards the longitudinal view of vessels.