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

Alberto Gomez; Veronika A. Zimmer; Gavin Wheeler; Nicolas Toussaint; Shujie Deng; Robert Wright; Emily Skelton; Jackie Matthew; Bernhard Kainz; Jo Hajnal; Julia Schnabel

doi:10.1016/j.softx.2021.100959

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

Alberto Gomez
, Veronika A. Zimmer
, Gavin Wheeler
, Nicolas Toussaint
, Shujie Deng
, Robert Wright
, Emily Skelton
, Jackie Matthew
, Bernhard Kainz
, Jo Hajnal
, Julia Schnabel

Informatics 32 - Chair of Computational Imaging and AI in Medicine

King's College London
Technical University of Munich
Imperial College London
Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Helmholtz Zentrum München German Research Center for Environmental Health

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

4 Scopus citations

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.

Original language	English
Article number	100959
Journal	SoftwareX
Volume	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2021.100959
State	Published - Jan 2022

Keywords

Plug-in based
Real time
Ultrasound imaging

Access to Document

10.1016/j.softx.2021.100959

Cite this

@article{19ac9eb324e34f98b758a18c99dcb120,

title = "PRETUS: A plug-in based platform for real-time ultrasound imaging research",

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.",

keywords = "Plug-in based, Real time, Ultrasound imaging",

author = "Alberto Gomez and Zimmer, \{Veronika A.\} and Gavin Wheeler and Nicolas Toussaint and Shujie Deng and Robert Wright and Emily Skelton and Jackie Matthew and Bernhard Kainz and Jo Hajnal and Julia Schnabel",

note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021",

year = "2022",

month = jan,

doi = "10.1016/j.softx.2021.100959",

language = "English",

volume = "17",

journal = "SoftwareX",

issn = "2352-7110",

publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - PRETUS

T2 - A plug-in based platform for real-time ultrasound imaging research

AU - Gomez, Alberto

AU - Zimmer, Veronika A.

AU - Wheeler, Gavin

AU - Toussaint, Nicolas

AU - Deng, Shujie

AU - Wright, Robert

AU - Skelton, Emily

AU - Matthew, Jackie

AU - Kainz, Bernhard

AU - Hajnal, Jo

AU - Schnabel, Julia

PY - 2022/1

Y1 - 2022/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Plug-in based

KW - Real time

KW - Ultrasound imaging

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85122516681

U2 - 10.1016/j.softx.2021.100959

DO - 10.1016/j.softx.2021.100959

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85122516681

SN - 2352-7110

VL - 17

JO - SoftwareX

JF - SoftwareX

M1 - 100959

ER -

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

Abstract

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this