TY  - BOOK
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
TI  - PRETUS: A plug-in based platform for real-time ultrasound imaging research
PY  - 2022///-01
KW  - Text
KW  - local
N1  - /pmc/articles/PMC7614027; /pubmed/36619798
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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2021.100959
ER  -