arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 7

UltraDiff: Differentiable Ray Tracing in Ultrasound for Shape Optimization

UltraDiff is a modular framework that extends differentiable rendering to medical ultrasound by modeling image formation as a path‑space integral gated by travel time. It derives a Monte Carlo estimator for both the forward ultrasound model and its gradients, enabling gradient‑based optimization of scene parameters. The authors demonstrate the method on inverse geometry estimation, recovering vertebral surfaces from simulated and real B‑mode sweeps without requiring pre‑segmented images, achieving competitive geometric accuracy.

By Felix Duelmer, Magdalena Wysocki, Nassir Navab, Mohammad Farid Azampour
arXiv AI
Aug 10

Surg-UniWorld: A Unified Surgical World Model with Multimodal Control Experts

arXiv:2608. 06770v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Controllable surgical world models can provide a generative foundation for surgical artificial intelligence and simulation by synthesizing realistic instrument--tissue interactions.

By Rulin Zhou, Wanhao Liu, Guoheng Ma, Liangjin Shao, Qiujie Song, Yidu Wang, Guankun Wang, Tong Chen, Long Bai, Luping Zhou, Hongliang Ren