@INPROCEEDINGS {Ford-2012-HRV,
author = "Steven Ford and Ivan Viola and Stefan Bruckner and Hans Torp and Gabriel Kiss",
title = "HeartPad: Real-Time Visual Guidance for Cardiac Ultrasound",
booktitle = "Proceedings of WASA 2012",
year = "2012",
pages = "169--176",
month = "nov",
abstract = "Medical ultrasound is a challenging modality when it comes to image  interpretation. The goal we address in this work is to assist the  ultrasound examiner and partially alleviate the burden of interpretation.  We propose to address this goal with visualization that provides  clear cues on the orientation and the correspondence between anatomy  and the data being imaged. Our system analyzes the stream of 3D ultrasound  data and in real-time identifies distinct features that are basis  for a dynamically deformed mesh model of the heart. The heart mesh  is composited with the original ultrasound data to create the data-to-anatomy  correspondence. The visualization is broadcasted over the internet  allowing, among other opportunities, a direct visualization on the  patient on a tablet computer. The examiner interacts with the transducer  and with the visualization parameters on the tablet. Our system has  been characterized by domain specialist as useful in medical training  and for navigating occasional ultrasound users.",
pdf = "pdfs/Ford-2012-HRV.pdf",
images = "images/Ford-2012-HRV.jpg",
thumbnails = "images/Ford-2012-HRV.png",
youtube = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d3G7ig-yiQ",
affiliation = "tuwien",
doi = "10.1145/2425296.2425326",
keywords = "medical visualization, ultrasound",
url = "//www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2012/Ford-2012-HRV/"
}