Interson Probe Ultrasound Applications

A repository for interactive ultrasound applications using Interson probes.

Currently the repository contains two applications

1. UltrasoundOpticNerveUI: Automatic optic nerve width estimation suing the INterson linear array ultrasound probe.
2. SpectroscopyRecorderUI: Raw RF signal recorder

Requirements and Build

Build each in "Release" configuration and in the following order:

1. Qt5 (Yup, 5)
   • Use VS 2013 or 2015 and QT 5.8 make sure you use the QT installer that matches your VS version (otherwise you'll get a linker error).
     • with VS 2012 QT complains about c++11 compliancy.
     • VS 2017 complains about a QT bug thats fixed in 5.9 but with 5.9 VTK complains.
2. ITK
   • https://github.com/Kitware/ITK
   • (required for SpectroscopyRecorder only) ITKUltrasound module https://github.com/KitwareMedical/ITKUltrasound
3. IntersonArraySDK
   • From Interson (https://interson.com/)
   • To run the probe the Interson drivers need to be installed using SeeMoreArraySetup.exe (from the IntersonArraySDK)
4. IntersonArraySDKCxx (Must be INSTALLED - cannot use build dir)
   • https://github.com/KitwareMedical/IntersonArraySDKCxx
5. For running from commandline all dll's used also need ito be in the PATH. The CMakefiles.txt contains a package target that will collect all dlls and create a zip file (See creating a binary package).

Creating a Binary Package

The CMakelists.txt conatins instructions for cpack to create a zip file that includes all required dlls and the exectubale.

Running the target "package" (i.e. ninja package if you used ninja as your cmake generator) will create that zip file.

Software Architecture

Optic Nerve UI

This is a multithreaded architecture with three main threads.

1. The QT user interface thread that displayes the images (in OpticNerveUI. ) by grabbing images from the ringbuffers in 2 and 3 below.
2. The image aqusition thread that stores images into a RingBuffer (IntersonArrayDevice.hxx)
3. The optic nerve width estimator that reads images from the ringbuffer and does the calculations (OpticNerveCalculator.hxx). This threads spawns multiple worker threads to estimate the width on multiple images in parallel adn stores the result ina ringbuffer.

Uses copied code from the UltrsoundOpticNerveEstimation repository.

TODOS

OpticNerveUI

1. Cleanup code
2. Simplify optic nerve estimator.
3. The OpticNerveEstimator is allocated and deallcoated every time (and all the filters required). Shouls set this up as a a pipeline
4. The optic nerve width estimates are not stored in order (display of estimate sis out order)

Spectroscopy Recorder

1. Record images
2. Highpass filter of the RF images