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PRETUS: A plug-in based platform for real-time ultrasound imaging research | |
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.
【 授权许可】
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