Computer-based training in two-dimensional echocardiography using an echocardiography simulator

Weidenbach, Michael; Wild, F.; Scheer, Kathrin; Muth, Gerhard; Kreutter, S.; Grunst, Gernoth; Berlage, Thomas; Schneider, P. M.

doi:10.1016/j.echo.2004.10.025

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“…Devices and simulators [104][105][106][107][108][109][110][111][112][113][114][115][116] The primary objective of these papers was to describe or evaluate ultrasound simulators (or 'phantoms') or devices adjunctive to the ultrasound machine itself. Ultrasound simulators are models of human anatomy designed to provide a means of practicing ultrasound skills where practice on a human is impractical, dangerous or unethical.…”

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“…Ultrasound simulators are models of human anatomy designed to provide a means of practicing ultrasound skills where practice on a human is impractical, dangerous or unethical. Our search found studies that tested both commercially available simulators [104][105][106][107][108] and institutions that built their own simulators with varying degrees of complexity [109][110][111].…”

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A Scoping Review of Ultrasound Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education

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Introduction Increasingly, medical schools are integrating Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) into their curricula. This review investigated the available literature on how best to integrate POCUS in the teaching of medical students and the benefits of doing so. Methods Given the heterogeneous literature that has emerged on POCUS education, a scoping review was conducted. Relevant medical databases, including PubMed, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, EMBASE and CINAHL, were searched between January 1980 and August 2016, using keywords identified by the authors. Inclusion criteria were as follows: prospective or retrospective studies, observational or intervention studies, and studies describing how medical students learn to use ultrasound. Results The literature search yielded 593 articles, of which 128 met the inclusion criteria. Studies that met the inclusion criteria were sub-categorised under the following headings: those that described or evaluated an ultrasound curriculum, those that employed ultrasound as a means of teaching another topic in the curriculum (i.e., anatomy, physical examination, physiology, invasive procedures), those that investigated the learning curve of ultrasound education and those that employed adjuncts or peer mentoring to teach ultrasound. Conclusions The reviewed literature indicates that the integration of ultrasound in undergraduate medical education is both feasible and beneficial to medical students. This article is intended to inform medical educators aiming to integrate ultrasound into their medical school curricula.

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A Scoping Review of Ultrasound Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education

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“…It is a real-time modality, it does not involve ionising radiation, and the equipment is portable and relatively inexpensive. A challenge with ultrasound is, however, that it is operator-dependent, and it therefore requires training to fully exploit its potential (1). Skills are needed both for optimal handling of the probe to obtain the best possible image, and for interpreting the images correctly.…”

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“…Investigations have indicated the usefulness of simulators in the teaching of clinical ultrasound (1,4). These investigations have mostly been concerned with the overall learning outcome of simulator training.…”

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Efficiency of ultrasound training simulators: Method for assessing image realism

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Minimally Invasive Therapy & Allied Technologies

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Although ultrasound has become an important imaging modality within several medical professions, the benefit of ultrasound depends to some degree on the skills of the person operating the probe and interpreting the image. For some applications, the possibility to educate operators in a clinical setting is limited, and the use of training simulators is considered an alternative approach for learning basic skills. To ensure the quality of simulator based training, it is important to produce simulated ultrasound images that resemble true images to a sufficient degree. This article describes a method that allows corresponding true and simulated ultrasound images to be generated and displayed side by side in real time, thus facilitating an interactive evaluation of ultrasound simulators in terms of image resemblance, real-time characteristics and man-machine interaction. The proposed method could be used to study the realism of ultrasound simulators and how this realism affects quality of training, as well as being a valuable tool in the development of simulation algorithms.

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“…Weidenbach et al 13,14 have developed a simulator to assist training in 2-D echocardiography. It consists of a surface model of the heart with registered echocardiographic volume data sets corresponding to each 2-D echocardiographic plane.…”

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Automated speckle tracking algorithm to aid on-axis imaging in echocardiography

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Abstract. Obtaining a "correct" view in echocardiography is a subjective process in which an operator attempts to obtain images conforming to consensus standard views. Real-time objective quantification of image alignment may assist less experienced operators, but no reliable index yet exists. We present a fully automated algorithm for detecting incorrect medial/lateral translation of an ultrasound probe by image analysis. The ability of the algorithm to distinguish optimal from sub-optimal four-chamber images was compared to that of specialiststhe current "gold-standard." The orientation assessments produced by the automated algorithm correlated well with consensus visual assessments of the specialists (r ¼ 0.87) and compared favourably with the correlation between individual specialists and the consensus, 0.82 AE 0.09. Each individual specialist's assessments were within the consensus of other specialists, 75 AE 14% of the time, and the algorithm's assessments were within the consensus of specialists 85% of the time. The mean discrepancy in probe translation values between individual specialists and their consensus was 0.97 AE 0.87 cm, and between the automated algorithm and specialists' consensus was 0.92 AE 0.70 cm. This technology could be incorporated into hardware to provide real-time guidance for image optimisation-a potentially valuable tool both for training and quality control.

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Computer-based training in two-dimensional echocardiography using an echocardiography simulator

Cited by 43 publications

References 22 publications

A Scoping Review of Ultrasound Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education

A Scoping Review of Ultrasound Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education

Efficiency of ultrasound training simulators: Method for assessing image realism

Automated speckle tracking algorithm to aid on-axis imaging in echocardiography

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