Better operations with 3D ultrasound; Veronika Solteszova, Christian Michelsens Institutt

Real-Time Processing

of Streamed 3D Data

Better operations with 3D ultrasound

Veronika Solteszova

12.11.2014

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Background

UiB, Visualization Group Basic research not limited to • 3D volume rendering • Segmentation • Processing • Interaction

Photo: E. Røstad

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Background


HUS, NCUG Clinical use of ultrasound

Photo: E. Røstad

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Background


HUS, NCUG Clinical use of ultrasound

CMR, Computing Applied visualization, data analysis, decision support, virt. reality… • Oil & gas, renewable energy • Marine, environment, maritime & SAR • Medicine

Photo: E. Røstad

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IllustraSound Project 2009-2013

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IllustraSound Achievements 2009-13

• Strong interdisciplinary research

• UiB, HUS, CMR (MedViz)

• Certified medical illustrator Kari Toverud

• International cooperation partners

• GE Vingmed (industry, access to data)

• 17 peer-reviewed publications

• 2 successful PhD theses

• 1 Patent application

• Eurographics Dirk Bartz Medical Prize 2013

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Promising Results

• Peer-reviewed article on High-Quality filtering of

ultrasound data

• Patent application filed in 2012 with support of Bergen

Teknologioverføring AS (BTO) and FORNY

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ISADAF: In-Situ ADAptive Filtering

• 1 year support from VERDIKT, CMR, UiB, HUS and GE

Vingmed

• Commercialization of results from IllustraSound

• Processing of 3D ultrasound volumes in-situ

a) Not processed b) Processed c) Identical to b, computed in 60% time

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Results from ISADAF

• New patent application “Visibility-Driven 3D Ultrasound

Image Processing”

• For many processing approaches,

not limited to med. ultrasound

• Versatile, therefore better potential

• NVIDIA Best paper award at

Eurographics VCBM ’14

• Invited to submit to Computer

Graphics Forum (L2 journal)

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Challenges

• Job after PhD must allow to follow up the results

• Synchronize publishing and patenting activity

• Definition of public disclosure

• Clear to lawyers

• Not clear to researchers by default

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Future Outlook

• Final report to GE Vingmed, possible exclusive license

• Alternative lines of commercialization

• Other lines medical ultrasound than cardiac (GE Kretztechnik)

• Industries with need of better in-situ visualization of 3D data

Dataset Anna Dataset source Archer BTC

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Acknowledgments

• VERDIKT (projects #193170 and #229352/O70)

• MedViz

• BTO

• GE Vingmed AS

• P. Angelelli

• K. Matre

• M. Lønnebakken

• Svein Brekke

Technology

Better operations with 3D ultrasound; Veronika Solteszova, Christian Michelsens Institutt