TY - GEN
T1 - Assessment of panoramic ultrasound reconstruction imaging using telemedicine equipment
T2 - 18th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis
AU - Romero, Stefano E.
AU - Guevara, Naomi
AU - Montoya, Ximena
AU - Castaneda, Benjamin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 SPIE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Telemedicine is one of the most important technologies and services nowadays to overcome face-to-face consultation or intervention, especially, in rural areas. Teleultrasound monitoring is a service that has been useful for lung, thyroid or liver monitoring. In particular, one of the most promising protocols to attend this type of monitoring is sending asynchronous acquired ultrasound videos following the volume sweep imaging protocol; however, one of the main limitations is the poor internet bandwidth that does not allow sending files with a large amount of information. For this reason, in this work, it was proposed to send a single image that includes all the information of the acquisition using panoramic reconstruction of the ultrasound video. To perform the experiments, an ultrasound phantom was used with the commercially available ultrasound scanner with a linear transducer at different acquisition depths of 2.5, 3.7, 4.9, 6.1 and 7.4 cm. For the reconstructions, three phases were used detection of the acquisition moment, by means of optical flow; image processing for the selection of the region of interest and intensity adjustment; and panoramic reconstruction determining the displacement between frames. It was observed that this was successful for the deeper and higher contrast acquisitions.
AB - Telemedicine is one of the most important technologies and services nowadays to overcome face-to-face consultation or intervention, especially, in rural areas. Teleultrasound monitoring is a service that has been useful for lung, thyroid or liver monitoring. In particular, one of the most promising protocols to attend this type of monitoring is sending asynchronous acquired ultrasound videos following the volume sweep imaging protocol; however, one of the main limitations is the poor internet bandwidth that does not allow sending files with a large amount of information. For this reason, in this work, it was proposed to send a single image that includes all the information of the acquisition using panoramic reconstruction of the ultrasound video. To perform the experiments, an ultrasound phantom was used with the commercially available ultrasound scanner with a linear transducer at different acquisition depths of 2.5, 3.7, 4.9, 6.1 and 7.4 cm. For the reconstructions, three phases were used detection of the acquisition moment, by means of optical flow; image processing for the selection of the region of interest and intensity adjustment; and panoramic reconstruction determining the displacement between frames. It was observed that this was successful for the deeper and higher contrast acquisitions.
KW - Panoramic reconstruction
KW - telemedicine
KW - teleultrasound
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85159287805&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1117/12.2670069
DO - 10.1117/12.2670069
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85159287805
T3 - Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
BT - 18th International Symposium on Medical Information Processing and Analysis
A2 - Brieva, Jorge
A2 - Guevara, Pamela
A2 - Lepore, Natasha
A2 - Linguraru, Marius G.
A2 - Rittner, Leticia
A2 - Castro, Eduardo Romero
PB - SPIE
Y2 - 9 November 2022 through 11 November 2022
ER -