Hi Alfred,

I think I made Terason up. I was thinking of your portable one … must be a 
Telemed? Would anyone be interested in Ultrasonix? I can also take a look to 
see if its generalisable, and propose some ideas.

Yes, the OpenCVVideoSupport module is pretty nice, thanks!

M


> On 17 Sep 2015, at 15:38, Alfred Franz <a.fr...@dkfz-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Matt,
> 
> yes, for US machines control is possible. We implemented this for the Telemed 
> ultrasound system and it works well. The software structure is designed 
> expandable, so new devices can be added by derving from general superclasses 
> and so on. Of course we appreciate any contribution in this area and try to 
> help as much as possible if required. I heard about some work on other API 
> devices (maybe Terason, but I'm not quite sure) in the community but so far 
> it's not clear if this will be contributed to the open source part of MITK.
> 
> At the moment the control structure is restricted to the US module. But of 
> course we can think about generalizing this for video / open CV. We should 
> definitely talk about this in detail
> soon if you are interested.
> 
> By the way, if you only need the video stream from a webcam, etc. this is 
> already possible via the OpenCVVideoSupport module (just in case anybody 
> doesn't know) ...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alfred
> 
> 
> Am 17.09.2015 15:47, schrieb Clarkson, Matt:
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> Random question:
>> 
>> I see that there is a general purpose API for US machines 
>> (http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11548-013-0962-z#page-1). From 
>> memory I recall a design where one could provide direct control of an 
>> ultrasound scanner such as a Terrason, or Ultrasonix using the vendors API.
>> 
>> Is there an equivalent for Video? Or is the recommended approach just to go 
>> for OpenCV, where for example my on-board web-cam, or a USB based video card 
>> would probably work quite well via OpenCV. But is anyone working on directly 
>> connecting to video cards like Black Magic/AJA/Matrox?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Matt
>> 
>> 
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