Publications

publications by categories in reversed chronological order. generated by jekyll-scholar.

2025

  1. Improving Robustness to Out-of-Distribution States in Imitation Learning via Deep Koopman-Boosted Diffusion Policy
    Dianye Huang, Nassir Navab, and Zhongliang Jiang
    IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO), 2025
  2. Synomaly noise and multi-stage diffusion: A novel approach for unsupervised anomaly detection in medical images
    Yuan Bi, Lucie Huang, Ricarda Clarenbach, Reza Ghotbi, Angelos Karlas, Nassir Navab, and Zhongliang Jiang
    Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2025
  3. Vibnet: Vibration-boosted needle detection in ultrasound images
    Dianye Huang, Chenyang Li, Angelos Karlas, Xiangyu Chu, KW Samuel Au, Nassir Navab, and Zhongliang Jiang
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2025
  4. Speckle2Self: Self-supervised ultrasound speckle reduction without clean data
    Xuesong Li, Nassir Navab, and Zhongliang Jiang
    Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2025
  5. Toward Clinical Applications of Intelligent Robotic Ultrasound Systems
    Taiyu Han, Guochen Ning, Hanying Liang, Zihan Li, Zhongliang Jiang, Fang Chen, Yan Kang, Jianwen Luo, and Hongen Liao
    IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, 2025
  6. Intelligent Virtual Sonographer (IVS): Enhancing Physician-Robot-Patient Communication
    Tianyu Song, Feng Li, Yuan Bi, Angelos Karlas, Amir Yousefi, Daniela Branzan, Zhongliang Jiang, Ulrich Eck, and Nassir Navab
    In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2025
  7. Ultraad: Fine-grained ultrasound anomaly classification via few-shot clip adaptation
    Yue Zhou, Yuan Bi, Wenjuan Tong, Wei Wang, Nassir Navab, and Zhongliang Jiang
    In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2025
  8. Semantic scene graph for ultrasound image explanation and scanning guidance
    Xuesong Li, Dianye Huang, Yameng Zhang, Nassir Navab, and Zhongliang Jiang
    In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2025
  9. Freehand 3-D Ultrasound Imaging: Sim-in-the-Loop Probe Pose Optimization via Visual Servoing
    Yameng Zhang, Dianye Huang, Max Q-H Meng, Nassir Navab, and Zhongliang Jiang
    IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2025
  10. FB-Diff: Fourier Basis-guided Diffusion for Temporal Interpolation of 4D Medical Imaging
    Xin You, Runze Yang, Chuyan Zhang, Zhongliang Jiang, Jie Yang, and Nassir Navab
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
  11. Gaze-guided robotic vascular ultrasound leveraging human intention estimation
    Yuan Bi, Yang Su, Nassir Navab, and Zhongliang Jiang
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025
  12. Robotic CBCT meets robotic ultrasound
    Feng Li, Yuan Bi, Dianye Huang, Zhongliang Jiang, and Nassir Navab
    International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery (IPCAI), 2025
  13. UltRAP-Net: Reverse Approximation of Tissue Properties in Ultrasound Imaging
    Yingqi Li, Ka-Wai Kwok, Magdalena Wysocki, Nassir Navab, and Zhongliang Jiang
    Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2025
  14. Multimodal graph representation learning for robust surgical workflow recognition with adversarial feature disentanglement
    Long Bai, Boyi Ma, Ruohan Wang, Guankun Wang, Beilei Cui, Zhongliang Jiang, Mobarakol Islam, Zhe Min, Jiewen Lai, Nassir Navab, and others
    Information Fusion, 2025
  15. Improving Probe Localization for Freehand 3D Ultrasound Using Lightweight Cameras
    Dianye Huang, Nassir Navab, and Zhongliang Jiang
    In 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2025
  16. Manipulating Elasto-Plastic Objects With 3D Occupancy and Learning-Based Predictive Control
    Zhen Zhang, Xiangyu Chu, Yunxi Tang, Lulu Zhao, Jing Huang, Zhongliang Jiang, and KW Samuel Au
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2025
  17. Vibration-Based Energy Metric for Restoring Needle Alignment in Autonomous Robotic Ultrasound
    Zhongyu Chen, Chenyang Li, Xuesong Li, Dianye Huang, Zhongliang Jiang, Stefanie Speidel, Xiangyu Chu, and KW Au
    IROS2025, 2025

2024

  1. Intelligent robotic sonographer: Mutual information-based disentangled reward learning from few demonstrations
    Zhongliang Jiang, Yuan Bi, Mingchuan Zhou, Ying Hu, Michael Burke, and Nassir Navab
    The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2024
  2. Ultrasound report generation with cross-modality feature alignment via unsupervised guidance
    Jun Li, Tongkun Su, Baoliang Zhao, Faqin Lv, Qiong Wang, Nassir Navab, Ying Hu, and Zhongliang Jiang
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI), 2024
  3. Machine learning in robotic ultrasound imaging: Challenges and perspectives
    Yuan Bi, Zhongliang Jiang, Felix Duelmer, Dianye Huang, and Nassir Navab
    Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems (ARCRAS), 2024
  4. Needle segmentation using gan: Restoring thin instrument visibility in robotic ultrasound
    Zhongliang Jiang, Xuesong Li, Xiangyu Chu, Angelos Karlas, Yuan Bi, Yingsheng Cheng, KW Samuel Au, and Nassir Navab
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2024
  5. Robot-assisted deep venous thrombosis ultrasound examination using virtual fixture
    Dianye Huang, Chenguang Yang, Mingchuan Zhou, Angelos Karlas, Nassir Navab, and Zhongliang Jiang
    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2024
  6. Review of robotic systems for thoracoabdominal puncture interventional surgery
    Cheng Wang, Li Guo, Jianjun Zhu, Lifeng Zhu, Chichi Li, Haidong Zhu, Aiguo Song, Ligong Lu, Gao-Jun Teng, Nassir Navab, and others
    APL bioengineering, 2024
  7. Class-aware cartilage segmentation for autonomous US-CT registration in robotic intercostal ultrasound imaging
    Zhongliang Jiang, Yunfeng Kang, Yuan Bi, Xuesong Li, Chenyang Li, and Nassir Navab
    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2024

2023

  1. DefCor-Net: Physics-aware ultrasound deformation correction
    Zhongliang Jiang, Yue Zhou, Dongliang Cao, and Nassir Navab
    Medical Image Analysis (MedIA), 2023
  2. Robotic ultrasound imaging: State-of-the-art and future perspectives
    Zhongliang Jiang, Septimiu E Salcudean, and Nassir Navab
    Medical image analysis (MedIA), 2023
  3. MI-SegNet: Mutual information-based US segmentation for unseen domain generalization
    Yuan Bi, Zhongliang Jiang, Ricarda Clarenbach, Reza Ghotbi, Angelos Karlas, and Nassir Navab
    In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, best paper runner up 3 out of 2253 submissions, 2023
  4. Skeleton graph-based ultrasound-CT non-rigid registration
    Zhongliang Jiang, Xuesong Li, Chenyu Zhang, Yuan Bi, Walter Stechele, and Nassir Navab
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023
  5. Dopus-net: Quality-aware robotic ultrasound imaging based on doppler signal
    Zhongliang Jiang, Felix Duelmer, and Nassir Navab
    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2023
  6. Motion magnification in robotic sonography: Enabling pulsation-aware artery segmentation
    Dianye Huang, Yuan Bi, Nassir Navab, and Zhongliang Jiang
    In 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023
  7. Thoracic cartilage ultrasound-ct registration using dense skeleton graph
    Zhongliang Jiang, Chenyang Li, Xuesong Lil, and Nassir Navab
    In 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2023

2022

  1. Deep reinforcement learning based trajectory planning under uncertain constraints
    Lienhung Chen, Zhongliang Jiang, Long Cheng, Alois C Knoll, and Mingchuan Zhou
    Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022
  2. VesNet-RL: Simulation-based reinforcement learning for real-world US probe navigation
    Yuan Bi, Zhongliang Jiang, Yuan Gao, Thomas Wendler, Angelos Karlas, and Nassir Navab
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022
  3. Towards autonomous atlas-based ultrasound acquisitions in presence of articulated motion
    Zhongliang Jiang, Yuan Gao, Le Xie, and Nassir Navab
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2022
  4. Precise repositioning of robotic ultrasound: Improving registration-based motion compensation using ultrasound confidence optimization
    Zhongliang Jiang, Nehil Danis, Yuan Bi, Mingchuan Zhou, Markus Kroenke, Thomas Wendler, and Nassir Navab
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2022

2021

  1. Motion-aware robotic 3D ultrasound
    Zhongliang Jiang, Hanyu Wang, Zhenyu Li, Matthias Grimm, Mingchuan Zhou, Ulrich Eck, Sandra V Brecht, Tim C Lueth, Thomas Wendler, and Nassir Navab
    In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021
  2. Autonomous robotic screening of tubular structures based only on real-time ultrasound imaging feedback
    Zhongliang Jiang, Zhenyu Li, Matthias Grimm, Mingchuan Zhou, Marco Esposito, Wolfgang Wein, Walter Stechele, Thomas Wendler, and Nassir Navab
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2021
  3. Deformation-aware robotic 3D ultrasound
    Zhongliang Jiang, Yue Zhou, Yuan Bi, Mingchuan Zhou, Thomas Wendler, and Nassir Navab
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021

2020

  1. Automatic normal positioning of robotic ultrasound probe based only on confidence map optimization and force measurement
    Zhongliang Jiang, Matthias Grimm, Mingchuan Zhou, Javier Esteban, Walter Simson, Guillaume Zahnd, and Nassir Navab
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2020
  2. Model-based compensation of moving tissue for state recognition in robotic-assisted pedicle drilling
    Zhongliang Jiang, Long Lei, Yu Sun, Xiaozhi Qi, Ying Hu, Bing Li, Nassir Navab, and Jianwei Zhang
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics, 2020
  3. Automatic force-based probe positioning for precise robotic ultrasound acquisition
    Zhongliang Jiang, Matthias Grimm, Mingchuan Zhou, Ying Hu, Javier Esteban, and Nassir Navab
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 2020

2019

  1. Cutting depth monitoring based on milling force for robot-assisted laminectomy
    Zhongliang Jiang, Xiaozhi Qi, Yu Sun, Ying Hu, Guillaume Zahnd, and Jianwei Zhang
    IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2019

2017

  1. A model of vertebral motion and key point recognition of drilling with force in robot-assisted spinal surgery
    Zhongliang Jiang, Yu Sun, Shijia Zhao, Ying Hu, and Jianwei Zhang
    In 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017