PRETUS: A plug-in based platform for real-time ultrasound imaging research
Gomez, A., Zimmer, V. A., Wheeler, G. , Toussaint, N., Deng, S., Wright, R., Skelton, E. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-0132-7948, Matthew, J., Kainz, B., Hajnal, J. V. & Schnabel, J. (2022).
PRETUS: A plug-in based platform for real-time ultrasound imaging research.
SoftwareX, 17,
article number 100959.
doi: 10.1016/j.softx.2021.100959
Abstract
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.
| Publication Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | ©2021 Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Publisher Keywords: | Real time, Ultrasound imaging, Plug-in based |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics |
| Departments: | School of Health & Psychological Sciences > Midwifery & Radiography |
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