PRO-TIP: Phantom for RObust automatic ultrasound calibration by TIP detection

1 code implementation • 13 Jun 2022 • Matteo Ronchetti, Julia Rackerseder, Maria Tirindelli, Mehrdad Salehi, Nassir Navab, Wolfgang Wein, Oliver Zettinig

We propose a novel method to automatically calibrate tracked ultrasound probes.

Rethinking Ultrasound Augmentation: A Physics-Inspired Approach

no code implementations • 5 May 2021 • Maria Tirindelli, Christine Eilers, Walter Simson, Magdalini Paschali, Mohammad Farid Azampour, Nassir Navab

Medical Ultrasound (US), despite its wide use, is characterized by artifacts and operator dependency.

Data Augmentation

Ultrasound-Guided Robotic Navigation with Deep Reinforcement Learning

3 code implementations • 30 Mar 2020 • Hannes Hase, Mohammad Farid Azampour, Maria Tirindelli, Magdalini Paschali, Walter Simson, Emad Fatemizadeh, Nassir Navab

In this paper we introduce the first reinforcement learning (RL) based robotic navigation method which utilizes ultrasound (US) images as an input.

reinforcement-learning Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Force-Ultrasound Fusion: Bringing Spine Robotic-US to the Next "Level"

1 code implementation • 26 Feb 2020 • Maria Tirindelli, Maria Victorova, Javier Esteban, Seong Tae Kim, David Navarro-Alarcon, Yong Ping Zheng, Nassir Navab

Processed force and ultrasound data are fused using a 1D Convolutional Network to compute the location of the vertebral levels.