Aestheticization of Ultrasound Images
- Prasanta Pal ,
- David R. Vago ,
- Amardip Ghosh ,
- Judson Brewer
Abstract
Ultrasound imaging is one of the most versatile imaging method in order
to observe inner workings of human- body. Due to its simplicity,
cost-effectiveness, easy availability and portability, a diverse set of
applications are influenced by this very popular imaging modality.
Despite its popularity as one of the most widely used imaging
techniques, it has some serious limitations including lack of image
clarity as well as complete absence of any visual aesthetics. Although,
commonplace data filters can potentially make ultrasound images smoother
looking, however, there is a significant loss of information introduced
by the smoothing filters. In this article, we developed a method to
enhance the image clarity as well as a protocol for enhancing image
aesthetics for ultrasound modality using modern data-curation tool
SOCKS. We performed few case studies using various color schemas applied
on a publicly available fetal ultrasound image. The outlined technique
can be easily generalized to any other kind of ultrasound images. We
hypothesize that, our method would not only provide us with enhanced
scientific accuracy, visual clarity of ultrasound images but also add
additional layers of visual clarity coupled with artistic and aesthetic
values. Our method calls for an complete rethinking of how we present
ultrasound images