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Publications

Explore our latest research and discover how researchers use the ImFusion platform in their work.

Latest Highlights

A selection of our latest research and publications

Ultrasound sweep images with a Tracking Ground Truth and Dual Track Prediction highlighted in yellow and blue, with minimal offset

DualTrack

Sensorless 3D ultrasound needs local and global context – Winner of the TUS-REC 2025 challenge

Endoscopic image showing multiple tools handling internals of the body, with an overlay of colourful dots that track the movement of the tools and organs

LiteTracker

Leveraging temporal causality for accurate low-latency tissue tracking

A diagram illustrating the network architecture of HyperSort

HyperSORT

Self-organising robust training with hyper-networks

6 different endoscopic views with with different Radiance Fields Optimizations

FLex

Joint pose and dynamic radiance fields optimization for stereo endoscopic videos

A 4x4 matrix of ultrasound frames comparing US confidence maps

Beyond Shadows

Learning physics-inspired ultrasound confidence maps from sparse annotations

Voxel-wise foundation model features

VoxelFeat

Voxel-wise foundation model features

Network architecture of the ImplicitMeshNet, and a 3D mesh model showing the network on the example of a heart

ImplicitMeshNet

Deep implicit neural representations of end-to-end anatomical shape estimation from volumetric image

Papers

Since ImFusion’s founding in 2012, we have published 83 papers.

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Publications 2012-2026

Publications

Explore publications from our team and the wider research community using ImFusion technology.

Research at ImFusion

Advancing medical imaging through our own research.

Our team actively contributes to research in medical image computing, developing new methods and exploring their application to real-world medical challenges. Much of this work is carried out together with academic, clinical and industry partners and presented at leading conferences and in scientific journals.

Community publications

Discover research built with ImFusion.

Researchers around the world use the ImFusion platform in their own work, from medical image analysis and AI to navigation, robotics and image-guided interventions. Here, we highlight publications from the wider research community that use ImFusion software, showing the many different ways our technology supports academic research.

Research at ImFusion

2026

Extending the Field of View in Modulation-Based X-Ray Phase Microtomography

D. John, J. Chen, C. Gaßner, S. Savatović, L. M. Petzold, S. Wirtensohn, M. Riedel, J. U. Hammel, J. Moosmann, F. Beckmann, M. Wieczorek, J. Herzen; IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2026

2025

2D-3D deformable image registration of histology slide and micro-CT with DISA-based initialization

J. Chen, M. Ronchetti, V. Stehl, V. Nguyen, M. Al Kallaa, M. T. Gedara, C. Lölkes, S. Moser, M. Seidl & M. Wieczorek; Scientific Reports, 2025

Deep Implicit Neural Representations for End-to-End Anatomical Shape Estimation from Volumetric Images

M.-H. Laves, S. Schuler, A. Abbas, D. Paik, R. Prevost, O. Zettinig; Medical Imaging with Deep Learning – Short Papers, 2025

Why is Patch Size Important? Dealing with Context Variability in Segmentation Networks

M. B. Sanchez, S. Joutard, M. F. Azampour, R. Prevost; Medical Imaging with Deep Learning – Short Papers, 2025

Visual-Haptic Model Mediated Teleoperation for Remote Ultrasound

D. Black, M. Tirindelli, S. Salcudean, W. Wein, M. Esposito; arXiv:2502.07922, 2025

2024

DynaMoN: Motion-Aware Fast and Robust Camera Localization for Dynamic Neural Radiance Fields

N. Schischka, H. Schieber, M. A. Karaoglu, M. Görgülü, F. Grötzner, A. Ladikos, D. Roth, N. Navab, B. Busam; IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024

Deep Spectral Methods for Unsupervised Ultrasound Image Interpretation

O. Tmenova, Y. Velikova, M. Saleh, N. Navab; International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2024

Centimeter-sized Objects at Micrometer Resolution: Extending Field-of-View in Wavefront Marker X-ray Phase-Contrast Tomography

D. John, J. Chen, C. Gaßner, S. Savatović, L. M. Petzold, S. Wirtensohn, M. Riedel, J. U. Hammel, J. Moosmann, F. Beckmann, M. Wieczorek, J. Herzen; arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.00482, 2024

HyperSpace: Hypernetworks for Spacing-Adaptive Image Segmentation

S. Joutard, M. Pietsch, R. Prevost; International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) 2024

Community Publications

2025

TRUSTED: The Paired 3D Transabdominal Ultrasound and CT Human Data for Kidney Segmentation and Registration Research

W. Ndzimbong, C. Fourniol, L. Themyr, N. Thome, Y. Keeza, B. Sauer, P.-T. Piéchaud, A. Méjean, J. Marescaux, D. George, D. Mutter, A. Hostettler, T. Collins; Scientific Data, Vol. 12, Article No. 615, 2025

The relationship between structures affecting maxillary sinus ventilation and maxillary sinus volume: a CT study

M. Güven, D. A. Saygin, I. I. Uysal, G. D. Emlik; Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 1-11, 2025

SafeRPlan: Safe deep reinforcement learning for intraoperative planning of pedicle screw placement

Y. Ao, H. Esfandiari, F. Carrillo, C. J. Laux, Y. As, R. Li, K. Van Assche, A. Davoodi, N. A. Cavalcanti, M. Farshad, B. F. Grewe, E. Vander Poorten, A. Krause, P. Fürnstahl; Medical Image Analysis, Vol. 99, pp. 103345, 2025

2024

Global registration of kidneys in 3D ultrasound and CT images

W. Ndzimbong, N. Thome, C. Fourniol, Y. Keeza, B. Sauer, J. Marescaux, D. George, A. Hostettler, T. Collins; International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, pp. 1-11, 2024

Ultrasound Confidence Maps with Neural Implicit Representation

V. B. Yesilkaynak, V. G. Duque, M. Wysocki, Y. Velikova, D. Mateus, N. Navab; Annual Conference on Medical Image Understanding and Analysis, pp. 89-100, 2024

Histomolecular Validation of [18F]-FACBC in Gliomas Using Image-Localized Biopsies

B. E. Vindstad, A. J. Skjulsvik, L. K. Pedersen, E. M. Berntsen, O. S. Solheim, T. Ingebrigtsen, I. Reinertsen, H. Johansen, L. Eikenes, A. M. Karlberg; Cancers, Vol. 16, No. 14, 2024

Mixed Reality Navigation in der Thoraxchirurgie: Holografisches Overlay durch automatisierte Registrierung

P. Feodorovici, H. Bonsmann, P. Schnorr, D. Zalepugas, B. Bedetti, H. Menghesha, J. Schmidt, J. Arensmeyer; Zentralblatt für Chirurgie-Zeitschrift für Allgemeine, Viszeral-, Thorax-und Gefäßchirurgie, Vol. 149, No. S 01, pp. V-221, 2024

Evaluating Age-Related Anatomical Consistency in Synthetic Brain MRI against Real-World Alzheimer’s Disease Data

H. Yassin, J. Fehr, W. C. Lai, A. Krichevsky, A. Rakowski, C. Lippert; Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, 2024

Evaluation of Body Shape as a Human Body Composition Assessment in Isolated Conditions and Remote Environments

M. C. Wong, J. P. Bennett, L. T. Leong, Y. E. Liu, N. N. Kelly, J. Cherry, K. Kloza, B. Li, S. Iuliano, J. Sibonga, et al.; npj Microgravity, Vol. 10, No. 1, p. 72, 2024