public-echo

Public repository for the VITAL work on echocardiography imaging.

Authors:

• Nhat Phung
• Miguel Xochicale
• Alberto Gomez

Summary

This repository contains the code for the echo ultrasound Pretus plug-in, also known as RAILSEG.

The software provided here is a plug-in to PRETUS (Plug-in based, Real-time Ultrasound). If you use PRETUS, please cite:

@misc{gomez2021pretus,
      title={PRETUS: A plug-in based platform for real-time ultrasound imaging research}, 
      journal = {SoftwareX},
      volume = {17},
      pages = {100959},
      author={Alberto Gomez and Veronika A. Zimmer 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},
      year={2022},
      issn = {2352-7110},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2021.100959}, 
      url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352711021001849}
}

Build and Usage

Please check the usage instructions in the plug-in's page.

Please also refer to the build instructions for PRETUS plug-ins in here.

Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust UK (110179/Z/15/Z, 203905/Z/16/Z), by the Wellcome Trust IEH Award [102431], by the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Medical Engineering [WT203148/Z/16/Z], by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health.