ImFusion - External Publications

Here you can find a selection of publications that utilize or reference our software. For a comprehensive list of ImFusion's own technical and clinical publications, please visit our publications page.

Global registration of kidneys in 3D ultrasound and CT images [LINK]

W. Ndzimbong, N. Thome, C. Fourniol, Y. Keeza, B. Sauer, J. Marescaux, D. George, A. Hostettler, T. Collins

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, pp. 1-11, 2024
Ultrasound Confidence Maps with Neural Implicit Representation

V. B. Yesilkaynak, V. G. Duque, M. Wysocki, Y. Velikova, D. Mateus, N. Navab

Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, pp. 89-100, 2024
Histomolecular Validation of [18F]-FACBC in Gliomas Using Image-Localized Biopsies [LINK]

B. E. Vindstad, A. J. Skjulsvik, L. K. Pedersen, E. M. Berntsen, O. S. Solheim, T. Ingebrigtsen, I. Reinertsen, H. Johansen, L. Eikenes, A. M. Karlberg

Cancers, Vol. 16, No. 14, 2024
Mixed Reality Navigation in der Thoraxchirurgie: Holografisches Overlay durch automatisierte Registrierung [LINK]

P. Feodorovici, H. Bonsmann, P. Schnorr, D. Zalepugas, B. Bedetti, H. Menghesha, J. Schmidt, J. Arensmeyer

Zentralblatt für Chirurgie-Zeitschrift für Allgemeine, Viszeral-, Thorax-und Gefäßchirurgie, Vol. 149, No. S 01, pp. V-221, 2024
Evaluating Age-Related Anatomical Consistency in Synthetic Brain MRI against Real-World Alzheimer's Disease Data

H. Yassin, J. Fehr, W. C. Lai, A. Krichevsky, A. Rakowski, C. Lippert

Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, 2024
Evaluation of Body Shape as a Human Body Composition Assessment in Isolated Conditions and Remote Environments [PDF]

M. C. Wong, J. P. Bennett, L. T. Leong, Y. E. Liu, N. N. Kelly, J. Cherry, K. Kloza, B. Li, S. Iuliano, J. Sibonga, et al.

npj Microgravity, Vol. 10, No. 1, p. 72, 2024
Ultrasound Segmentation Analysis via Distinct and Completed Anatomical Borders [PDF]

V. G. Duque, A. Marquardt, Y. Velikova, L. Lacourpaille, A. Nordez, M. Crouzier, H. J. Lee, D. Mateus, N. Navab

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, pp. 1-9, Springer, May 25, 2024
Aortic Roadmapping During EVAR: A Combined FEM-EM Tracking Feasibility Study [LINK]

M. Emendi, G. A. Tangen, P. Di Giovanni, H. Ulsaker, R. Brekken, F. Manstad-Hulaas, V. Prot, A. Bel-Brunon, K. H. Støverud

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2024, pp. 1-9. Springer
Class-Aware Cartilage Segmentation for Autonomous US-CT Registration in Robotic Intercostal Ultrasound Imaging [LINK]

Z. Jiang, Y. Kang, Y. Bi, X. Li, C. Li, N. Navab

arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.04100, 2024
Chondrosarcoma Evaluation Using Hematein-Based X-Ray Staining and High-Resolution 3D Micro-CT: A Feasibility Study [PDF]

A. S. Gersing, M. A. Kimm, C. Bollwein, P. Ilg, C. Mogler, F. G. Gassert, G. C. Feuerriegel, C. Knebel, K. Woertler, D. Pfeiffer, M. Busse, F. Pfeiffer

European Radiology Experimental, V: 8, I: 1, p. 58, 2024
Autonomous Needle Navigation in Subretinal Injections via iOCT

P. Zhang, J. W. Kim, P. Gehlbach, I. Iordachita, M. Kobilarov

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024
Prospective Deep Learning-Based Quantitative Assessment of Coronary Plaque by CT Angiography Compared with Intravascular Ultrasound [LINK]

J. Narula, T. D. Stuckey, G. Nakazawa, A. Ahmadi, M. Matsumura, K. Petersen, S. Mirza, N. Ng, S. Mullen, M. Schaap, et al.

European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging, jeae115, Published: 03 May 2024
3D Ultrasound Mosaic of the Whole Shoulder: A Feasibility Study

A. Sewify, M. Antico, M. Steffens, J. Roots, A. Gupta, K. Cutbush, P. Pivonka, D. Fontanarosa

Applied Sciences, V: 14, I: 5, 2024, pp. 2152
CathFlow: Self-Supervised Segmentation of Catheters in Interventional Ultrasound Using Optical Flow and Transformers [PDF]

A. Ranne, L. Kuang, Y. Velikova, N. Navab, F. Rodriguez y Baena

arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.14465, 2024
Real-World Federated Learning in Radiology: Hurdles to Overcome and Benefits to Gain [LINK]

M. R. Bujotzek, Ü. Akünal, S. Denner, P. Neher, M. Zenk, E. Frodl, A. Jaiswal, M. Kim, N. R. Krekiehn, M. Nickel, et al.

arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.09409, 2024
Comparison of Virtual Non-Contrast and True Non-Contrast CT Images Obtained by Dual-Layer Spectral CT in COPD Patients [LINK]

M. Steinhardt, A. W. Marka, S. Ziegelmayer, M. Makowski, R. Braren, M. Graf, J. Gawlitza

Bioengineering, Vol. 11, No. 4, p. 301, MDPI, 2024
Transformer-Based Local Feature Matching for Multimodal Image Registration

R. Delaunay, R. Zhang, F. C. Pedrosa, N. Feizi, D. Sacco, R. V. Patel, J. Jagadeesan

Medical Imaging 2024: Image Processing, Vol. 12926, pp. 138-143. SPIE, 2024
The Influence of the Weight-Bearing State on Three-Dimensional (3D) Planning in Lower Extremity Realignment--Analysis of Novel vs. State-of-the-Art Planning Approaches [PDF]

S. Hodel, T. Arn-Roth, F. Haug, F. Carillo, L. Vlachopoulos, S. F. Fucentese, P. Fürnstahl

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Vol. 144, No. 5, pp. 1989-1996. Springer, 2024
Ultra-NeRF: Neural Radiance Fields for Ultrasound Imaging

M. Wysocki, M. F. Azampour, C. Eilers, B. Busam, M. Salehi, N. Navab

Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, pp. 382-401. January 2024. PMLR
CACTUSS: Common Anatomical CT-US Space for US Examinations

Y. Velikova, W. Simson, M. F. Azampour, P. Paprottka, N. Navab

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 1-9. 2024
A Target Containing Phantom for Accuracy Assessment of Cone-Beam CT-Guided Histotripsy [PDF]

A. Z. Kutlu, G. M. Minesinger, P. F. Laeseke, M. Speidel, M. G. Wagner

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, e14329, Wiley Online Library, 2024
Shape Completion in the Dark: Completing Vertebrae Morphology from 3D Ultrasound

M. A. Gafencu, Y. Velikova, M. Saleh, T. Ungi, N. Navab, T. Wendler, M. F. Azampour

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 1-9. 2024
Multitask Weakly Supervised Generative Network for MR-US Registration

M. F. Azampour, K. Mach, E. Fatemizadeh, B. Demiray, K. Westenfelder, K. Steiger, ... N. Navab

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 2024
Validation of a Three-Dimensional Weight-Bearing Measurement Protocol for Medial Open-Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy [LINK]

S. Hodel, J. Hasler, T. A. Roth, A. Flury, C. Sutter, S. F. Fucentese, P. Fürnstahl, L. Vlachopoulos

Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol. 13, No. 5, p. 1280, MDPI, 2024
Towards Safe and Collaborative Robotic Ultrasound Tissue Scanning in Neurosurgery

M. Dyck, A. Weld, J. Klodmann, A. Kirst, L. Dixon, G. Anichini, S. Camp, A. Albu-Schäffer, S. Giannarou

IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 2024

Path Re-planning for Robotic Ultrasound Imaging of Bony Structures

K. Van Assche, A. Davoodi, R. Li, M. Ourak, E. Vander Poorten

Robot-Assisted Surgery (RAS) Group, July 2023
Feature-Based Electromagnetic Tracking Registration Using Bioelectric Sensing

A. Ramadani, H. Maier, F. Bourier, C. Meierhofer, P. Ewert, H. Schunkert, N. Navab

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, V: 8, I: 6, June 2023
Feasibility and Accuracy of Measuring Carotid Plaque Volume (Burden) With Contrast-Enhanced Tomographic 3D Ultrasound and Ultrasound Image Fusion

S.K. Rogers, A. Phair, J. Carriera, J. Ghosh, F.L. Bowling, C. McCollum.

Annals of Vascular Surgery, V. 91, 168-175, April 2023
Automated robotic intraoperative ultrasound for brain surgery

M. Dyck, A. Weld, J. Klodmann, A. Kirst, G. Anichini, L. Dixon, S. Camp, S. Giannarou, A. Albu-Schäffer

ICRA-RAMI workshop, April 2023
Skeleton Graph-Based Ultrasound-CT Non-Rigid Registration

Z. Jiang, X. Li, C. Zhang, Y. Bi, W. Stechele, N. Navab

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, V: 8, I: 2, 2023
DOPUS-Net: Quality-Aware Robotic Ultrasound Imaging Based on Doppler Signal

Z. Jiang, F. Duelmer, N. Navab

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE), 2023
Intelligent robotic sonographer: Mutual information-based disentangled reward learning from few demonstrations [LINK]

Z. Jiang, Y. Bi, M. Zhou, Y. Hu, M. Burke, N. Navab

International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2023
MI-SegNet: Mutual Information-Based US Segmentation for Unseen Domain Generalization

Y. Bi, Z. Jiang, R. Clarenbach, R. Ghotbi, A. Karlas, N. Navab

Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), 2023 (Best Paper Runner-Up)
DefCor-Net: Physics-Aware Ultrasound Deformation Correction

Z. Jiang, Y. Zhou, D. Cao, N. Navab

Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2023
Towards transcervical ultrasound image guidance for transoral robotic surgery

Chen, W., Kalia, M., Zeng, Q., Pang, E. H., Bagherinasab, R., Milner, T. D., Sabiq, F., Prisman, E., and Salcudean, S. E.

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 1-8., April 2023
Robotic Navigation Autonomy for Subretinal Injection via Intelligent Real-Time Virtual iOCT Volume Slicing

S. Dehghani, M. Sommersperger, P. Zhang, A. Martin-Gomez, B. Busam, P. Gehlbach, N. Navab, M. A. Nasseri, I. Iordachita

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2023
Implicit Neural Representations for Breathing-compensated Volume Reconstruction in Robotic Ultrasound Aorta Screening

Y. Velikova, M. F. Azampour, W. Simson, M. Esposito, N. Navab

arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.04999. 2023
LOTUS: Learning to Optimize Task-based US Representations

Y. Velikova, M. F. Azampour, W. Simson, V. Gonzalez Duque, N. Navab

International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, pp. 435-445. October 2023. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland
Self-supervised Probe Pose Regression via Optimized Ultrasound Representations for US-CT Fusion

M. F. Azampour, Y. Velikova, E. Fatemizadeh, S. P. Dakua, N. Navab

International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Aided Diagnosis, pp. 111-121. December 2023. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore
Assessment of thoracic spinal curvatures in static postures using spatially tracked 3D ultrasound volumes: a proof-of-concept study

L. Meszaros-Beller, M. Antico, D. Fontanarosa, P. Pivonka

Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, 46, 197–208, January 2023
Navigation protocol configuration based on data from transverse imaging methods for the precise placement of radioactive source in patients undergoing brachytherapy

D. A. Liakopoulos

University of Crete, Medical and Health Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Ophthalmology, 2023

A tool for high-resolution volumetric optical coherence tomography by compounding radial-and linear acquired B-scans using registration.

C. M. Bosch, C. Baumann, S. Dehghani, M. Sommersperger, N. Johannigmann-Malek, K. Kirchmair, M. Maier, M. A. Nasseri

Sensors, 22(3), 1135, 2022/div>
Learning-Based US-MR Liver Image Registration with Spatial Priors

Q. Zeng, S. Mohammed, E. H. T. Pang, C. Schneider, M. Honarvar, J. Lobo, C. Hu, J. Jago, G. Ng, R. Rohling, S. E. Salcudean

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2022 pp 174–184, September 2022
CACTUSS: Common Anatomical CT-US Space for US Examinations

Y. Velikova, W. Simson, M. Salehi, M. F. Azampour, P. Paprottka, N. Navab

Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2022
Precise Repositioning of Robotic Ultrasound: Improving Registration-Based Motion Compensation Using Ultrasound Confidence Optimization

Z. Jiang, N. Danis, Y. Bi, M. Zhou, M. Kroenke, T. Wendler, N. Navab

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, V: 71, August 2022
Tracked 3D ultrasound and deep neural network-based thyroid segmentation reduce interobserver variability in thyroid volumetry

M. Krönke, C. Eilers, D. Dimova, M. Köhler, G. Buschner, L. Schweiger, L. Konstantinidou, M. Makowski, J. Nagarajah, N. Navab, W. Weber, T Wendler

PLoS ONE 17(7): e0268550, July 2022
3D osteotomies—improved accuracy with patient-specific instruments (PSI)

M. Jörgens, A. M. Keppler, P. Ahrens, W. C. Prall, M. Bergstraesser, A. T. Bachmeier, C. Zeckey, A. C. Kußmaul, W. Böcker, J. Fürmetz

European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, July 2022
How are Lung Volume and Respiratory Muscles Affected in Non-Severe Patients With Covid-19?

I. Ucar, M. S. Cosgun, F. Cankal, C. Kararti, E. Kurtoglu, A. Payas, D. Patat, M. Nisari

MEDICAL RECORDS-International Medical Journal, 4(2):203-8, 2022
Bioelectric Registration of Electromagnetic Tracking and Preoperative Volume Data

A. Ramadani, H. Maier, F. Bourier, C. Meierhofer, P. Ewert, H. Schunkert, N. Navab

Medical Physics, June 2022
Endoscopic measurement of nasal septum perforations

J.-C. Rosenthal, E. L. Wisotzky, C. Matuschek, M. Hobl, A. Hilsmann, P. Eisert, F. C. Uecker

HNO, 70(1), pp.1-7, 2022
Precise Repositioning of Robotic Ultrasound: Improving Registration-Based Motion Compensation Using Ultrasound Confidence Optimization

Z. Jiang, N. Danis, Y. Bi, M. Zhou, M. Kroenke, T. Wendler, N. Navab

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, V: 71, pp. 1-11, 2022
Assessment of spinal curvatures in static postures using localized 3D ultrasound: A proof-of-concept studylocalized 3D ultrasound: A proof-of-concept study

L. Meszaros-Beller, M. Antico; D. Fontanarosa, P. Pivonka

Queensland University of Technology, 2022
Longitudinal Analysis of Disease Progression Using Image and Laboratory Data for Covid-19 Patients

F. De Benetti, V. Bentele, E. Burian, M. Makowski, N. Navab, R. Braren, T. Wendler

Bildverarbeitung für die Medizin, pp 179–184, April 2022

Motion-Aware Robotic 3D Ultrasound

Z. Jiang, H. Wang, Z. Li, M. Grimm, M. Zhou, U. Eck, S. V. Brecht, T. C. Lueth, T. Wendler, N. Navab

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
MRI and dual-energy CT fusion anatomic imaging in Ru-106 ophthalmic brachytherapy

E. T. Detorakis, K. Perisinakis, E. Drakonaki, D. Liakopoulos, A. Tzedakis, E. Papadaki, M. K. Tsilimbaris

Brachytherapy, Volume 20, Issue 4, 828-834, 2021
Deformation-Aware Robotic 3D Ultrasound

W. Simson, M. F. Azampour, S. Sanei, N. Navab

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, V: 6, I: 4, 2021
Usability of Graphical Visualizations on a Tool-Mounted Interface for Spine Surgery

L. Schütz, C. Brendle, J. Esteban, S. M. Krieg, U. Eck, N. Navab

Journal of Imaging, 7(8), 159, 2021
Novel Low-Dose CT based Automatic Segmentation and Registration Framework for Liver Radioembolization Planning

J.M. Guerra, M. Mustafa, M. Krönke, N. Navab, S.G. Nekolla, W.A. Weber, T. Wendler

Nuklearmedizin; 60(02): 180-181, 2021

Ultrasound-guided Robotic Navigation with Deep Reinforcement Learning

H. Hase, M. F. Azampour, M. Tirindelli, M. Paschali, W. Simson, E. Fatemizadeh, N. Navab

2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 5534-5541. October 2020. IEEE
Bayesian CNN for Segmentation Uncertainty Inference on 4D Ultrasound Images of the Femoral Cartilage for Guidance in Robotic Knee Arthroscopy

M. Antico, F. Sasazawa, Y. Takeda, A. T. Jaiprakash, M-L. Wille, A. K. Pandey, R. Crawford, G. Carneiro, D. Fontanarosa

IEEE Volume 8, December 2020
Surgical Guidance for Removal of Cholesteatoma using a Multispectral 3D-Endoscope

E. L.Wisotzky, J. C. Rosenthal, U. Wege, A. Hilsmann, P. Eisert, F. C. Uecker

Sensors, 20(18), p.5334, 2020
Manual segmentation versus semi-automated segmentation for quantifying vestibular schwannoma volume on MRI

H. McGrath, P. Li, R. Dorent, R. Bradford, S. Saeed, S. Bisdas, S. Ourselin, J. Shapey, T. Vercauteren

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 15:1445–1455, 2020
Novel Approach to calculate Callus Distraction Forces in Distraction Osteogenesis and Application in the Human Tibia

A. Bachmeier, R. Bader, U. Schreiber, P.H. Thaller

Z Orthop Unfall; 158(S 01): S150, 2020
Biomechanischer Einfluss einer optimierten Positionierung von Pollerschrauben auf die Primärstabilität von Nagelosteosynthesen

P. Kutschera, L. Hofer, U. Schreiber, P.H. Thaller

Z Orthop Unfall; 158(S 01): S274, 2020
Computergestützte Benchmarkstudie von Osteosyntheseplatten für die Behandlung des kindlichen proximalen Femurs

C. Fritz, A. Bachmeier, M. Kebbach, R. Bader, H. Böhm

Z Orthop Unfall; 158(S 01): S47-S48, 2020

Duplex and 3-D Tomographic Ultrasound Measures that Predict Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Growth

M. Khan, S. Rogers, C. McCollum

European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Volume 58, Issue 6, SUPPLEMENT 2, e301-e302, December 2019

3D intra-operative ultrasound and MR image guidance: pursuing an ultrasound-based management of brainshift to enhance neuronavigation

M. Riva, C. Hennersperger, F. Milletari, A. Katouzian, F. Pessina, B. Gutierrez-Becker, A. Castellano, N. Navab, L. Bello

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, pp. 1711-1725, October 2017

Advanced inside-out tracking approach for real-time combination of MRI and US images in the radio-frequency shielded room using combination markers

Y. Nagaraj, C. Benedicks, P. Matthies, M. Friebe

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2016 IEEE 38th Annual International Conference of the (pp. 2558-2561), 2016
CustusX: an open-source research platform for image-guided therapy

C. Askeland, O. Solberg, J. Bakeng, I. Reinertsen, G. Tangen, E. Hofstad, D. Iversen, C. Vapenstad, T. Selbekk, T. Lango¸, T. Hernes, H. Leira, G. Unsgard, F. Lindseth

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, vol. 11, iss. 4, pp 505-519, 2016
Preclinical usability study of multiple augmented reality concepts for K-wire placement

M. Fischer, B. Fuerst, S.C. Lee, J. Fotouhi, S. Habert, S. Weidert, E. Euler, G. Osgood, N. Navab

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, vol. 11, iss. 6, pp. 1007-1014, 2016
Ultrasound-guided neurosurgery: experiences from 20 years of cross-disciplinary research in Trondheim, Norway

T. Selbekk, O. Solheim, G. Unsgård

Neurosurg Focus, 40 (3):E2, 2016
Cooperative control with ultrasound guidance for radiation therapy

H.T. Åžen, A. Cheng, K. Ding, E. Boctor, J. Wong, I. Iordachita, P. Kazanzides

Frontiers in Robotics and AI 3, 49, 2016

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