PRETUS: A plug-in based platform for real-time ultrasound imaging research

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Gavin Wheeler¹  Robert Wright²  Veronika A. Zimmer³  Jo Hajnal³  Shujie Deng³  Jackie Matthew³  Alberto Gomez⁴  Nicolas Toussaint⁴  Emily Skelton⁴  Julia Schnabel⁴  Bernhard Kainz⁴ 

[1] Corresponding author.;Department of Informatics, Technical University Munich, Germany;Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, UK;;School of Biomedical Engineering &

关键词: Real time;    Ultrasound imaging;    Plug-in based;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

We present PRETUS — a Plugin-based Real Time UltraSound software platform for live ultrasound image analysis and operator support. The software is lightweight; functionality is brought in via independent plug-ins that can be arranged in sequence. The software allows to capture the real-time stream of ultrasound images from virtually any ultrasound machine, applies computational methods and visualizes the results on-the-fly.Plug-ins can run concurrently without blocking each other. They can be implemented in C++ and Python. A graphical user interface can be implemented for each plug-in, and presented to the user in a compact way. The software is free and open source, and allows for rapid prototyping and testing of real-time ultrasound imaging methods in a manufacturer-agnostic fashion. The software is provided with input, output and processing plug-ins, as well as with tutorials to illustrate how to develop new plug-ins for PRETUS.

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