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This research presents an advanced AI-powered ultrasound imaging system that incorporates real-time image processing, organ tracking, and voice commands to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of diagnoses in clinical practice. Traditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-21 Emad Mohamed , Shruti Tiwari , Sheena Christabel Pravin

Physically assistive robots present an opportunity to significantly increase the well-being and independence of individuals with motor impairments or other forms of disability who are unable to complete activities of daily living (ADLs).…

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have helped facilitate exciting progress for robotic planning in real, open-world environments. 3D scene graphs (3DSGs) offer a promising environment representation for grounding such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Meghan Booker , Grayson Byrd , Bethany Kemp , Aurora Schmidt , Corban Rivera

Large language models (LLMs) have undergone significant expansion and have been increasingly integrated across various domains. Notably, in the realm of robot task planning, LLMs harness their advanced reasoning and language comprehension…

The paper introduces a novel autonomous robot ultrasound (US) system targeting liver follow-up scans for outpatients in local communities. Given a computed tomography (CT) image with specific target regions of interest, the proposed system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Tianpeng Zhang , Sekeun Kim , Jerome Charton , Haitong Ma , Kyungsang Kim , Na Li , Quanzheng Li

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding and solving mathematical problems, leading to advancements in various fields. We propose an LLM-embodied path planning framework for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Xiangrui Kong , Wenxiao Zhang , Jin Hong , Thomas Braunl

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 ultrasound. While existing research primarily focuses on either…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Tianyu Song , Feng Li , Yuan Bi , Angelos Karlas , Amir Yousefi , Daniela Branzan , Zhongliang Jiang , Ulrich Eck , Nassir Navab

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 that robotic US systems cannot react to subject movements…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Zhongliang Jiang , Nehil Danis , Yuan Bi , Mingchuan Zhou , Markus Kroenke , Thomas Wendler , Nassir Navab

Robotic ultrasound (US) systems have shown great potential to make US examinations easier and more accurate. Recently, various machine learning techniques have been proposed to realize automatic US image interpretation for robotic US…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Keyu Li , Xinyu Mao , Chengwei Ye , Ang Li , Yangxin Xu , Max Q. -H. Meng

Ultrasound video segmentation is clinically valuable yet difficult due to speckle noise, weak boundaries, and rapid anatomical deformation. Recent promptable foundation models enable point-guided segmentation, but their direct deployment in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ruiqiang Xiao , Zhaohu Xing , Yijun Yang , Zhenyan Han , Weiming Wang , Kaishun Wu , Lei Zhu

The realization of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) necessitates Embodied AI agents capable of robust spatial perception, effective task planning, and adaptive execution in physical environments. However, current large language models…

Embodied AI is a crucial frontier in robotics, capable of planning and executing action sequences for robots to accomplish long-horizon tasks in physical environments. In this work, we introduce EmbodiedGPT, an end-to-end multi-modal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Yao Mu , Qinglong Zhang , Mengkang Hu , Wenhai Wang , Mingyu Ding , Jun Jin , Bin Wang , Jifeng Dai , Yu Qiao , Ping Luo

Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable capabilities across a variety of domains and tasks, challenging our understanding of learning and cognition. Despite the recent success, current LLMs are not capable of processing…

AI-assisted ultrasound video diagnosis presents new opportunities to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of medical imaging analysis. However, existing research remains limited in terms of dataset diversity, diagnostic performance, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yuezhe Yang , Yiyue Guo , Wenjie Cai , Qingqing Ruan , Siying Wang , Xingbo Dong , Zhe Jin , Yong Dai

Autonomous ultrasound (US) acquisition is an important yet challenging task, as it involves interpretation of the highly complex and variable images and their spatial relationships. In this work, we propose a deep reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Keyu Li , Jian Wang , Yangxin Xu , Hao Qin , Dongsheng Liu , Li Liu , Max Q. -H. Meng

Clinical decision-making requires synthesizing heterogeneous evidence, including patient histories, clinical guidelines, and trajectories of comparable cases. While large language models (LLMs) offer strong reasoning capabilities, they…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shuheng Chen , Namratha Patil , Haonan Pan , Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang , Yao Du , Ruishan Liu , Jieyu Zhao

Although fully autonomous systems still face challenges due to patients' anatomical variability, teleoperated systems appear to be more practical in current healthcare settings. This paper presents an anatomy-aware control framework for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Davide Nardi , Edoardo Lamon , Daniele Fontanelli , Matteo Saveriano , Luigi Palopoli

Clinical ultrasound analysis demands models that generalize across heterogeneous organs, views, and devices, while supporting interpretable workflow-level analysis. Existing methods often rely on task-wise adaptation, and joint learning may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Chen Ma , Yunshu Li , Junhu Fu , Shuyu Liang , Yuanyuan Wang , Yi Guo

Robotic ultrasound has the potential to assist and guide physicians during interventions. In this work, we present a set of methods and a workflow to enable autonomous MRI-guided ultrasound acquisitions. Our approach uses a structured-light…

Embodied AI focuses on the study and development of intelligent systems that possess a physical or virtual embodiment (i.e. robots) and are able to dynamically interact with their environment. Memory and control are the two essential parts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Jinjie Mai , Jun Chen , Bing Li , Guocheng Qian , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Bernard Ghanem