Ultrasound Imaging

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Ultrasound imaging studies how to form and interpret images of the body using reflected sound, including B-mode, Doppler, contrast-enhanced, and volumetric scans. Machine-learning approaches range from U-Net-style segmentation and video models to self-supervised and vision-language foundation models, evaluated on tasks such as cardiac function, fetal plane detection, and breast-lesion classification. Physics-informed reconstruction and denoising, alongside robotic scanning and probe guidance, aim to improve image quality and make examinations more consistent and accessible. A central challenge is maintaining reliable performance across devices, hospitals, operators, and patient groups while meeting clinical needs for interpretability, external validation, and efficient deployment.

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  1. Beyond Discrete Tokens: Preserving Numerical Continuity in Medical Vision-Language Models

    Oct 23, 2026Dianye Huang, Jiamei Guo, Yue Zhou +5Medical Image AnalysisMedical VLMs

    Medical Intelligence and Robotic Cognition (MIRoC) Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · Chair for Computer-Aided and Medical Procedures (CAMP), Tehcnical University of Munich, Munich, Germany · Department of Medical Ultrasonics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China +2

  2. DinoMUSE: A DINOv2-guided Framework for Unsupervised Lateral Motion Estimation in Ultrasound Elastography

    Oct 16, 2026Xiyao Meng, Xingyue Wei, Baihua Luo +2Ultrasound Imaging

    School of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · School of Computer Science, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610000, China

  3. A Concept-informed Interpretable Artificial Intelligence Framework for Breast Ultrasound Diagnosis

    Oct 12, 2026Shengzhou Zhong, Ziying Wang, Liang Li +14Clinical Decision SupportExplainable Medical Image Analysis

    School of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China. · Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Medical Image Processing, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510515, China. · Guangdong Province Engineering Laboratory for Medical Imaging and Diagnostic Technology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China. +5

  4. C2^2LUE: Clinically Aligned Patient-Level Ultrasound Diagnosis via Evidence-Aware Multi-Instance Learning

    Oct 9, 2026Qin-Yi Zhang, Linying Cao, De-Xing Huang +7Ultrasound Image ClassificationMultiple Instance Learning

    State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

  5. A Multi-Source Ultrasound Benchmark Revealing the Limits of Contemporary Self-Supervised Anomaly Detection Methods

    Oct 7, 2026Marco Riedenauer, Daniel Kienzle, Pratik Mayekar +1Medical Image Anomaly DetectionUnsupervised Anomaly Detection

    University of Augsburg

  6. Deformable CT-US Registration via Anatomy-Aware Implicit Neural Representations

    Oct 6, 2026Agnieszka Lach, Magdalena Wysocki, Feng Li +7Medical Image RegistrationUltrasound Imaging

    medPhoton GmbH, Salzburg, Austria · Computer Aided Medical Procedures, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

  7. UltraDiff: Differentiable Ray Tracing in Ultrasound for Shape Optimization

    Oct 6, 2026Felix Duelmer, Magdalena Wysocki, Nassir Navab +1Differentiable RenderingUltrasound Imaging

    Technical University of Munich & Munich Center for Machine Learning

  8. How well do routinely collected demographic and clinical variables aid point-of-care lung ultrasound TB classification

    Oct 5, 2026Joshua M. Jansen van Vüren, Christiaan M. Geldenhuys, Devendra S. Parihar +7Medical DiagnosisMedical Image Classification

    Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa · Laboratory for intelligent Global Health and Humanitarian Response Technologies (LiGHT) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland · National Teaching Hospital for Tuberculosis and Pulmonary Diseases (CNHU-PPC), Cotonou, Benin +1

  9. Ultrasound Operator Guidance Using World Modeling and Retrieval Based Action Planning

    Oct 5, 2026Noortje I. P. Schueler, Hans van Gorp, Ruud J. G. van SlounWorld Model-Based PlanningUltrasound Imaging

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, 5612 AZ Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  10. WASP: Weakly Aligned Spatiotemporal Pairs for Fetal Brain MRI-Ultrasound Learning

    Oct 3, 2026Francesco Correnti, Gabriele Magrini, Marco Mistretta +6Fetal MRICross-Modal Alignment

    University of Florence, Italy · University of Trento, Italy · Meyer Children’s Hospital IRCCS, Florence, Italy

  11. Abdominal Ultrasound Simulation from Semantic Labels using Paired Label-to-Physics-Based Image Translation

    Oct 2, 2026Santiago Vitale, Duilio Deangeli, Ignacio Larrabide +1Medical Image SynthesisImage Generation

    National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Godoy Cruz 2290, CABA, C1425FQB, Buenos Aires, Argentina. · Pladema, UNICEN, Pasaje Arroyo Seco, Tandil, 7000, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

  12. Deep Bayesian REFoCUS

    Oct 2, 2026Simon Penninga, Ruud van SlounUltrasound ImagingBayesian Inverse Problems

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  13. Wrong Organ, Right Physics: Transferring Echocardiography Pretraining to Lung Ultrasound for Tuberculosis Screening

    Oct 2, 2026Christiaan M. Geldenhuys, Joshua M. Jansen van Vüren, Véronique Suttels +6Transfer LearningMedical Image Classification

    Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa · Laboratory for intelligent Global Health and Humanitarian Response Technologies (LiGHT) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland · National Teaching Hospital for Tuberculosis and Pulmonary Diseases (CNHU-PPC), Cotonou, Benin +1

  14. ZAGNet: Zone-Aware Graph Aggregation Network for Patient-Level Lung Ultrasound Diagnosis

    Oct 1, 2026Li Chen, Shubham Patil, Rashid Al Mukaddim +3Medical Image ClassificationUltrasound Imaging

    Philips Ultrasound Cambridge, MA, 02141

  15. Style-Driven Data Synthesis and Degradation-Aware Enhancement for Ultrasound Image Restoration

    Sep 28, 2026Yu-Kai Wang, Chun-Xin Tan, Manh-Hung Nguyen +1Synthetic Data AugmentationLow-Rank Adaptation

    Department of Computer Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan · Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  16. Contact-Aware Impedance Controller for Robot-Assisted Ultrasound Imaging

    Sep 28, 2026MD Miraj Arefin, M Efe TiryakiImpedance ControlUltrasound Imaging

    Center for Robotics and AI (ROMER), Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

  17. VCRE-Fib: View-Conditioned Regional Evidence for Fine-Grained Ultrasound Grading of Schistosoma japonicum-Associated Liver Fibrosis

    Sep 26, 2026Ziyang Xu, Shuli An, Hao Zhou +5Ultrasound ImagingFine-Grained Image Classification

    Department of Mathematics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory on Parasite and Vector Control Technology, National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Parasitic Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China · New Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR), State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems (MAIS), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences +4

  18. Towards Whole-Study Screening for Congenital Heart Disease in Fetal Ultrasound Using Multiple Instance Learning

    Sep 25, 2026Mohamed Azzam, Ruobing Liu, Esther C. Ugwueke +8Ultrasound ImagingMultiple Instance Learning

    Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198 USA · Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198 USA · Department of Pediatrics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198 USA +1

  19. Shadow Reduction in Ultrasound Imaging Using Differentiable Simulation and Radiance Field Decomposition

    Sep 24, 2026Valentin Bacher, Pak Hei Yeung, Bernhard Kainz +4Differentiable RenderingUltrasound Imaging

    Oxford Machine Learning in NeuroImaging Lab, University of Oxford, United Kingdom · Quantitative Healthcare Analysis · Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany +3

  20. Physics-Guided Multi-Objective Deep Learning for Ultrasound RF Data Interpolation in Resource-Constrained Imaging

    Sep 23, 2026Luoyuan Zhang, Yiyang You, Ananya Tandri +4Physics-Guided Image RestorationImage Reconstruction

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA · Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

  21. UltraBench 2: Towards Robust Evaluation of Vision Foundation Models on Ultrasound

    Sep 23, 2026Ashwath Radhachandran, Adam Tupper, Christian Gagné +1Ultrasound Image SegmentationMedical Imaging Foundation Models

    Bioengineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles · Institut Intelligence et Données (IID), Université Laval Mila – Quebec AI Institute · Radiological Sciences Department, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine

  22. Preoperative Prediction of Microvascular Invasion in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Integrating Multimodal Ultrasound and Clinical Data: A Multicenter Study

    Sep 21, 2026Jun Cheng, Yuanyuan Kong, Qing Huang +9Ultrasound ImagingClinical Prediction

    National-Regional Key Technology Engineering Laboratory for Medical Ultrasound, Guangdong Key Laboratory for Biomedical Measurements and Ultrasound Imaging, School of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University Medical School, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China · Marshall Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China · Department of Ultrasound, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China +1

  23. AWR-Net: Decoupling Anatomy and Appearance for 3D Fetal Brain Ultrasound Synthesis

    Sep 18, 2026Yuhuan Lu, Sergio Valencia, Yuanji Zhang +4Medical Image SynthesisUltrasound Imaging

    Department of Radiology, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA · Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA

  24. FreqDINO++: A Frequency-Guided Multi-Task Routing Vision Foundation Model for Universal Ultrasound Analysis

    Sep 17, 2026Qing Xu, Yixuan Zhang, Yue Li +7Ultrasound Image SegmentationMedical Imaging Foundation Models

    School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China · School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China · School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG72RD, UK +3

  25. Compression Hurts, Pooling Helps: Information Loss in Rayleigh-Scale Estimation from B-Mode Ultrasound

    Sep 17, 2026D. Hudson Smith, Ahmer RazaUltrasound Imaging

    Clemson University

  26. STUNet-Fusion: Spatiotemporal Needle-Tip Localization in Ultrasound Video via Multi-Channel Motion Fusion

    Sep 16, 2026Chia-Chi Hsu, Chia-Hsuan Hsu, Che-Chou ShenMedical Image LocalizationUltrasound Imaging

    National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan · National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

  27. Which Pretext Task Transfers? Self-Supervised Pretraining Objectives for Lung Ultrasound

    Sep 15, 2026Moein Heidari, Junbo Rao, Jai Choraria +3Contrastive LearningMasked Autoencoders

    University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada · Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

  28. AlignUS: MRI-Guided Ultrasound Representation Learning for ALS Classification from Tongue Images

    Sep 14, 2026Kadija Abdel Ghader, Emani Babe, Lorenzo Pettinari +2Cross-Modal Knowledge DistillationUltrasound Imaging

    Unité de Recherche en Systèmes Intelligents Avancés (URSIA), Institut Supérieur du Numérique (SupNum), Nouakchott, Mauritanie · University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  29. Deep Learning-based Intelligent Diagnosis of Congenital Uterine Anomalies in 3D Ultrasound

    Sep 14, 2026Yueyue Xu, Yuhao Huang, Jiaxiao Deng +11Medical Image ClassificationUltrasound Imaging

    The People’s Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, Guangxi, China · Medical Ultrasound Image Computing (MUSIC) Lab, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hong Kong, China +2

  30. Weakly Supervised Spatial Grounding for Discriminative Attention-Based Ultrasound-Histopathology Alignment in Prostate Cancer Grading

    Sep 14, 2026Obed Korshie Dzikunu, Emma Willis, Mohammad Mahdi Abootorabi +7Computational PathologyCross-Modal Knowledge Distillation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada · Vector Institute, Toronto, Canada · School of Computing, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada +3