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. Follow Your Heart: Landmark-Guided Transducer Pose Scoring for Point-of-Care Echocardiography

    Mar 28, 2026Zaiyang Guo, Jessie N. Dong, Filippos Bellos +8Anatomical Landmark DetectionEchocardiography

    ⋆University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA · † University of Michigan, Ann Anbor, MI, USA · § Central Michigan University, Mt Pleasant, MI, USA

  2. External Benchmarking of Lung Ultrasound Models for Pneumothorax-Related Signs: A Manifest-Based Multi-Source Study

    Mar 27, 2026Takehiro IshikawaMedical Image BenchmarksMedical Image Classification

    College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 801 Atlantic Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA

  3. Automated Quality Assessment of Blind Sweep Obstetric Ultrasound for Improved Diagnosis

    Mar 26, 2026Prasiddha Bhandari, Kanchan Poudel, Nishant Luitel +6Ultrasound ImagingImage Quality Assessment

    Nepal Applied Mathematics and Informatics Institute for research (NAAMII), Nepal · GE HealthCare · Institute of Medicine (IOM), Tribhuvan University, Nepal

  4. Representation-Level Adversarial Regularization for Clinically Aligned Multitask Thyroid Ultrasound Assessment

    Mar 22, 2026Dina Salama, Mohamed Mahmoud, Nourhan Bayasi +2Multi-Task LearningClinical Risk Prediction

    University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada · University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

  5. A Unified Platform and Quality Assurance Framework for 3D Ultrasound Reconstruction with Robotic, Optical, and Electromagnetic Tracking

    Mar 20, 2026Lewis Howell, Manisha Waterston, Tze Min Wah +23D ReconstructionMedical Imaging

    School of Computer Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT · School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT · St James’s University Hospital, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, LS9 7TF +1

  6. AURORA: Adaptive Unified Representation for Robust Ultrasound Analysis

    Mar 19, 2026Ufaq Khan, L. D. M. S. Sai Teja, Ayuba Shakiru +4Medical Image AnalysisUltrasound Imaging

    MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE · NIT Silchar, India · Birmingham City University, UK

  7. UNICORN: Ultrasound Nakagami Imaging via Score Matching and Adaptation for Assessing Hepatic Steatosis

    Mar 16, 2026Kwanyoung Kim, Jaa-Yeon Lee, Youngjun Ko +2Ultrasound ImagingParameter Estimation

    Department of AI Convergence, GIST · Kim Jae Chul Graduate School of AI, KAIST · Samsung Medison

  8. UltrasoundAgents: Hierarchical Multi-Agent Evidence-Chain Reasoning for Breast Ultrasound Diagnosis

    Mar 11, 2026Yali Zhu, Kang Zhou, Dingbang Wu +1Explainable Medical Image AnalysisMedical Image Classification

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Advanced Interdisciplinary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hong Kong

  9. CycleULM: A unified label-free deep learning framework for ultrasound localisation microscopy

    Mar 10, 2026Su Yan, Clara Rodrigo Gonzalez, Vincent C. H. Leung +11Ultrasound Imaging

    Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK. · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK. · Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), Guayaquil, Ecuador. +1

  10. FetalAgents: A Multi-Agent System for Fetal Ultrasound Image and Video Analysis

    Mar 10, 2026Xiaotian Hu, Junwei Huang, Mingxuan Liu +9Ultrasound ImagingMedical Report Generation

    Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA · West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

  11. OSCAR: Occupancy-based Shape Completion via Acoustic Neural Implicit Representations

    Mar 9, 2026Magdalena Wysocki, Kadir Burak Buldu, Miruna-Alexandra Gafencu +2Implicit Neural Representations3D Reconstruction

    Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP) Technical University of Munich, Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748 Garching, Germany · Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Munich, Germany · Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Reliable AI (relAI), Germany

  12. Match4Annotate: Cross-Video Annotation Transfer in Ultrasound via Implicit Feature Flow-Guided Matching

    Mar 6, 2026Zhuorui Zhang, Roger Pallarès-López, Praneeth Namburi +1Image MatchingMedical Image Registration

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA · Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA · MIT.nano Immersion Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

  13. UltraStar: Semantic-Aware Star Graph Modeling for Echocardiography Navigation

    Mar 2, 2026Teng Wang, Haojun Jiang, Chenxi Li +6EchocardiographyUltrasound Imaging

    Department of Automation, BNRist, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing, China +1

  14. Adaptive Bidirectional Task Interaction for Joint Segmentation and Classification of Breast Ultrasound

    Mar 1, 2026Abdullah Al Shafi, Md Kawsar Mahmud Khan Zunayed, Safin Ahmmed +2Ultrasound Image SegmentationImage Segmentation

    Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh · University Clermont Auvergne, France

  15. RAG-RUSS: A Retrieval-Augmented Robotic Ultrasound for Autonomous Carotid Examination

    Mar 1, 2026Dianye Huang, Ziping Cong, Nassir Navab +1Robotic UltrasoundRobotics

    Computer-Aided Medical Procedures and Augmented Reality (CAMP), Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany · Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Germany

  16. ConVibNet: Needle Detection during Continuous Insertion via Frequency-Inspired Features

    Mar 1, 2026Jiamei Guo, Zhehao Duan, Maria Neiiendam +3Ultrasound Imaging

    Computer Aided Medical Procedures and Augmented Reality (CAMP), Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany. · Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark. · Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Munich, Germany. +1

  17. MLRecon: Robust Markerless Freehand 3D Ultrasound Reconstruction via Coarse-to-Fine Pose Estimation

    Mar 1, 2026Yi Zhang, Puxun Tu, Kun Wang +3Ultrasound ImagingObject Pose Estimation

    Institute of Biomedical Manufacturing and Life Quality Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Department of Ultrasound in Medicine, Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China · Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  18. DiffSOS: Acoustic Conditional Diffusion Model for Speed-of-Sound Reconstruction in Ultrasound Computed Tomography

    Feb 27, 2026Yujia Wu, Shuoqi Chen, Shiru Wang +3Ultrasound ImagingInverse Problems

    Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA · NVIDIA Corp

  19. Experience-Guided Self-Adaptive Cascaded Agents for Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis with Reduced Biopsy Referrals

    Feb 27, 2026Pramit Saha, Mohammad Alsharid, Joshua Strong +1Clinical Decision SupportSelf-Improving Agents

    Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford · Department of Computer Science, Khalifa University

  20. IRSDE-Despeckle: A Physics-Grounded Diffusion Model for Generalizable Ultrasound Despeckling

    Feb 26, 2026Shuoqi Chen, Yujia Wu, Geoffrey P. LukeUltrasound ImagingImage Denoising

    Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA

  21. Efficient endometrial carcinoma screening via cross-modal synthesis and gradient distillation

    Feb 23, 2026Dongjing Shan, Yamei Luo, Jiqing Xuan +7Medical Image AnalysisOncology

    School of Medical Information and Engineering, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou 646000, Sichuan, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China · Department of Ultrasound, Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou 646000, Sichuan, China +8

  22. US-JEPA: A Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture for Ultrasound

    Feb 22, 2026Ashwath Radhachandran, Vedrana Ivezić, Shreeram Athreya +2Joint-Embedding Predictive ArchitectureUltrasound Imaging

    Biomedical Artificial Intelligence Research Lab, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America · Medical Informatics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States of America +3

  23. GUIDE-US: Grade-Informed Unpaired Distillation of Encoder Knowledge from Histopathology to Micro-UltraSound

    Feb 22, 2026Emma Willis, Tarek Elghareb, Paul F. R. Wilson +6Ultrasound Image ClassificationProstate Cancer Grading

    Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. · University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada∗. · Exact Imaging, Markham, Canada.

  24. 4D-UNet improves clutter rejection in human transcranial contrast enhanced ultrasound

    Feb 20, 2026Tristan Beruard, Armand Delbos, Arthur Chavignon +2Ultrasound ImagingU-Net

    Resolve Stroke, Paris, France

  25. The Sound of Death: Deep Learning Reveals Vascular Damage from Carotid Ultrasound

    Feb 19, 2026Christoph Balada, Aida Romano-Martinez, Payal Varshney +10Cardiovascular Risk PredictionClinical Risk Prediction

    German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany · RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany · University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany +1

  26. Towards Autonomous Robotic Kidney Ultrasound: Spatial-Efficient Volumetric Imaging via Template Guided Optimal Pivoting

    Feb 18, 2026Xihan Ma, Haichong ZhangRobotic UltrasoundUltrasound Imaging

  27. Scaling Ultrasound Volumetric Reconstruction via Mobile Augmented Reality

    Feb 17, 2026Kian Wei Ng, Yujia Gao, Deborah Khoo +7Ultrasound Imaging3D Medical Imaging

    National University Health System, Singapore · College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

  28. Echo-CoPilot: A Multiple-Perspective Agentic Framework for Reliable Echocardiography Interpretation

    Dec 6, 2025Moein Heidari, Ali Mehrabian, Mohammad Amin Roohi +5Medical VQAEchocardiography

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

  29. Echo-E3^3Net: Efficient Endocardial Spatio-Temporal Network for Ejection Fraction Estimation

    Mar 21, 2025Moein Heidari, Afshin Bozorgpour, AmirHossein Zarif-Fakharnia +5Efficient Neural Network InferenceLeft Ventricular Ejection Fraction Estimation

    University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada · University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany · Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran +1

  30. Performance of Machine Learning Classification in Sonomammogram Images using BI-RADS

    Nov 14, 2023Malitha Gunawardhana, Norbert ZolekMedical Image ClassificationUltrasound Imaging

    Auckland Bioengineering Institute University of Auckland New Zealand · Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences Poland