Making Ultrasounds Ultra-Speedy with Deep Learning NVIDIA Blog

Abdominal ultrasound tests for organ abnormalities haven't changed much in the past decade, with a doctor moving a wand over the patient's abdomen to gaze at blurry images. But the process could get accelerated by a thousand times with improved accuracy, based on deep learning work by U.S. researchers. Tests typically take around half an hour. That may not seem like a long time, but given that hospitals do thousands of these scans every year, they end up spending massive amounts of time providing this procedure when they could be seeing more patients. These examinations, done to diagnose abnormalities in various internal organs including the kidneys, liver or gallbladder, require substantial effort from practitioners who must find the right angle for ultrasound imaging, annotate these views in text and record relevant measurements.