ITK Point-of-Care Ultrasound (ITKPOCUS)
About
ITK Point-of-Care Ultrasound (ITKPOCUS) is an open source (Apache 2.0) collection of software libraries for the preprocessing and streaming of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) devices in order to support image processing and AI. It currently has levels of support for Clarius, Butterfly, Sonivate, Sonoque, and Interson probes.
A version of our automatic algorithm for optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) measurement (Moore et al. 2020) has been published here.
The ONSD estimation work is still active and updates will be pushed to this repository in the near future.
ITKPOCUS is developed by Kitware, Inc. in collaboration with Duke University. This effort was sponsored by the U.S. Government under Other Transactions Number W81XWH-15-9-0001/W81XWH-19-9-0015 (MTEC 19-08-MuLTI-0079).
Usage
See the individual device folders for additional documentation. Streaming APIs are dependent on the manufacturer's API (e.g. Android/Java for Clarius, MFC C++ for Sonivate, C++ for Interson). The toolkit wraps the native device APIs to the OpenIGTLink message protocol. The folder itkpocus contains the itkpocus Python library for preprocessing video files. Video files from the various manufacturers are converted into Insight Toolkit (ITK) itk.Image objects and file formats for image processing.
Roadmap
Always
- Contributions for other device support
Q3-Q4 2021
- Automated quality assessment using the CIRS-040GSE phantom
- Examples using MONAI
2022
- Automated optic nerve sheath measurement
Publications
- MTEC 2021 Prototype of the Year
- Moore, Brad T., Sean Montgomery, M. Niethammer, Hastings Greer and S. Aylward. “Automatic Optic Nerve Sheath Measurement in Point-of-Care Ultrasound.” ASMUS/PIPPI@MICCAI (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60334-2_3
- MTEC 2020 April Research Highlight
Contact
For bugs/issues/questions about using ITKPOCUS, please submit an issue using the Github tracker. For questions about the project or future collaboration, contact Brad Moore and Stephen Aylward.