- Ultrasound-guided real-time spinal motion visualization for spinal instability assessment. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2026 more…
- Comparative study of ultrasound shape completion and CBCT-based AR workflows for spinal needle interventions. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2026 more…
- Gaze-Guided Robotic Vascular Ultrasound Leveraging Human Intention Estimation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 10 (4), 2025, 3078-3085 more…
- Synomaly noise and multi-stage diffusion: A novel approach for unsupervised anomaly detection in medical images. Medical Image Analysis, 2025, 103737 more…
- Robotic CBCT meets robotic ultrasound. International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery 20 (6), 2025, 1049--1057 more…
- Intelligent Virtual Sonographer (IVS): Enhancing Physician-Robot-Patient Communication. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025 more…
- Intelligent robotic sonographer: Mutual information-based disentangled reward learning from few demonstrations. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 2024 more…
- Machine Learning in Robotic Ultrasound Imaging: Challenges and Perspectives. Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems 7 (1), 2024 more…
- Machine Learning in Robotic Ultrasound Imaging: Challenges and Perspectives. Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems 7 (1), 2024 more…
- Intelligent robotic sonographer: Mutual information-based disentangled reward learning from few demonstrations. The International Journal of Robotics Research 43 (7), 2024, 981-1002 more…
- Machine Learning in Robotic Ultrasound Imaging: Challenges and Perspectives. Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems 7 (1), 2024, 335-357 more…
- Class-Aware Cartilage Segmentation for Autonomous US-CT Registration in Robotic Intercostal Ultrasound Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2024, 1-13 more…
- Needle Segmentation Using GAN: Restoring Thin Instrument Visibility in Robotic Ultrasound. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 73, 2024, 1-11 more…
- Skeleton Graph-Based Ultrasound-CT Non-Rigid Registration. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 8 (8), 2023, 4394-4401 more…
- Motion Magnification in Robotic Sonography: Enabling Pulsation-Aware Artery Segmentation. 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE, 2023 more…
- MI-SegNet: Mutual Information-Based US Segmentation for Unseen Domain Generalization. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023 more…
- Motion Magnification in Robotic Sonography: Enabling Pulsation-Aware Artery Segmentation. 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE, 2023 more…
- MI-SegNet: Mutual Information-Based US Segmentation for Unseen Domain Generalization. In: MICCAI. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023 more…
- VesNet-RL: Simulation-Based Reinforcement Learning for Real-World US Probe Navigation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 7 (3), 2022, 6638-6645 more…
- Precise Repositioning of Robotic Ultrasound: Improving Registration-Based Motion Compensation Using Ultrasound Confidence Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 71, 2022, 1-11 more…
- Deformation-Aware Robotic 3D Ultrasound. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 6 (4), 2021, 7675-7682 more…
Yuan Bi
M.Sc. Yuan Bi
Informatik 16 - Lehrstuhl für Informatikanwendungen in der Medizin (Prof. Navab)
Postal address
Boltzmannstr. 3
85748 Garching b. München
- Room: 5613.03.053
- Homepage
- E-mail: yuan.bi@tum.de
Research Interests
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for Computer Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP), Technical University of Munich, where I lead the Robotics and Ultrasound Team. My research lies at the intersection of medical robotics, machine learning, and imaging, with the overarching goal of developing intelligent and trustworthy robotic ultrasound systems that integrate perception, reasoning, and action for both diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
My fields of interest include:
- Robotic Ultrasound
- Robot Learning
- Ultrasound Image Analysis
Curriculum Vitae
- May 2026 - Now: Postdoctoral researcher at CAMP, TUM.
- Sep. 2021 - May 2026: Ph.D. student at CAMP, TUM.
- Sep. 2018 - Sep. 2021: Master in Robotics, Cognition, Intelligence at TUM.
- Sep. 2014 - Sep. 2018: Bachelor in Mechatronics at Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
Awards
- Best Paper Runner Up of MICCAI 2023. (3 out of 2253 submissions)
- Best Poster Award, IEEE ICRA 2026 Workshop -- RASEI.
News
- 23 June (2026): 2 papers and 1 live demo presented at Hamlyn Symposium 2026, London, UK
- 11 June (2026): 3 papers accepted by MICCAI 2026, Sep, Strasbourg, France
- 05 June (2026): Best Poster Award, IEEE ICRA 2026 Workshop -- RASEI
- 27 May (2026): Successfully defended my PhD thesis (Examinars: Prof. Nassir Navab, Prof. Alison Noble, and Prof. Mahdi Tavakoli)
- 16 Mar (2026): 1 paper presented at German Conference on Medical Image Computing
- Apr (2026): Orgnizer of Medical Augmented Reality Summer School 2026
- 16 Mar (2026): 1 paper presented at German Conference on Medical Image Computing
- 17 Feb (2026): 1 paper accepted by Medical Image Analysis
- 12 Feb (2026): 2 papers accepted by IPCAI 2026
- 23 Jan (2026): 1 paper accepted by Scientific Reports
- 10 Jan (2026): Main orgnizer of the 4rd Robotic-Assisted Medical Imaging workshop at ICRA2026, June, Vienna, Austria
- 14 July (2025): 1 paper accepted by Medical Image Analysis
- 17 June (2025): 2 papers accepted by MICCAI 2025, Sep, Daejeon, Korea
- 27 Feb (2025): Invited speaker at ORSI Surgical AI & Telesurgery Days, Ghent, Belgium
- 16 Jan (2025): 1 paper accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- Dec (2024): Student orgnizer of the 3rd Robotic-Assisted Medical Imaging workshop at ICRA2025, May, Atlanta, USA
- 06 Dec (2024): 1 paper early accepted by IPCAI 2025
- 20 June (2024): 1 paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
- 21 May (2024): 1 paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
- 02 Jan (2024): 1 paper accepted by Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems
- Dec (2023): Student orgnizer of the 2nd Robotic-Assisted Medical Imaging workshop at ICRA2024, May, Yokohama, Japan
- 21 Nov (2023): 1 paper accepted by The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)
- 11 Oct (2023): MICCAI 2023 "Best paper Runner up" award for "MI-SegNet" paper
- 23 June (2023): 1 paper accepted by MICCAI2023
- 21 June (2023): 1 paper accepted by IROS2023
- 09 May (2023): 1 paper accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
- 08 Aug (2022): 1 paper accepted by IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
- 18 Apr (2022): 1 paper directly accepted by IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (presented at IROS2022)
- 30 June (2021): 1 paper accepted IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (presented at IROS2021)
- 01 Sep (2021): Join CAMP
Student Projects
If you are looking for an IDP, guided research, Bachelor or Master thesis in the field of robot learning or medical image understanding, feel free to contact us.
| Year | Type | Title | Student | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Guided Research | SurgOnAir: Hierarchy-Aware Real-Time Surgical Video Commentary | Jingyi He | Accepted at MICCAI 2026 |
| 2026 | Master Thesis | Counterfactual Flow: Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in 3D via Lesion Injection | Yaxuan Dai | Submitted to a conference |
| 2026 | Guided Research | From Scanning Guidelines to Action: A Robotic Ultrasound Agent with LLM-Based Reasoning | Yiping Zhou | Accepted at MICCAI 2026 |
| 2026 | Guided Research | Mask-to-Restore: Self-Supervised Ultrasound Despeckling via Inpainting | Yingtai Xu | Submitted to a conference |
| 2025 | Guided Research | From Deterministic to Stochastic Synomaly: Multi-Stage Guided Diffusion for Generalizable Unsupervised Anomaly Localization | Yaxuan Dai | Submitted to a journal |
| 2025 | Master Thesis | Interpretable Ultrasound Video Captioning via Language-Supervised Visual Grounding | Cameron Simoleit | Finished |
| 2025 | Bachelor Thesis | Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Medical Imaging via Deformation Recovery Models | Simon Seyfert | Finished |
| 2025 | Bachelor Thesis | Steering-Angle-Controlled Robotic Ultrasound for Spinal Imaging | Larissa Manalil | Accepted at Hamlyn Symposium 2026 |
| 2025 | Master Thesis | Systematic Auditing of Machine Unlearning for Large Language Models | Yueqi Zhang | Accepted by Lock-LLM Workshop at NeurIPS 2025 |
| 2025 | Master Thesis | Surrogate modeling for Single Neurons | Qilin Chen | Finished |
| 2024 | Master Thesis | Synomaly Noise and Multi-Stage Diffusion: A Novel Approach for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Ultrasound Imaging | Lucie Huang | Published in Medical Image Analysis |
| 2024 | Bachelor Thesis | Simultaneous Tracking and Segmentation of Carotid Plaques | Jason Mann | Finished |
| 2024 | Master Thesis | Gaze-Guided Robotic Vascular Ultrasound Leveraging Human Intention Estimation | Yang Su | Published in IEEE RAL |
| 2023 | Guided Research | Autonomous path planning for intercostal robotic ultrasound imaging using reinforcement learning | Cheng Qian | Published in Scientific Reports |
| 2022 | Master Thesis | Two-Stage Deep Learning Framework for Plaque Segmentation in Carotid Ultrasound Images | Moustafa Elsharkawy | Finished |