Ultrasound Imaging

This section includes echocardiography (echo), transthoracic echo (TTE), transesophageal echo (TEE), echo contrast, transducers, ultrasound software and point of care ultrasound (POCUS). Ultrasound uses sound waves to create images and software to reconstruct the images. The trend in ultrasound the past decade has been toward smaller, more compact system with more advanced imaging features and increased framerates, event for 3-D and 4-D ultrasound. A big trend starting around 2018 has been the addition of artificial intelligence (AI) to speed workflows, increase reproducibility of diagnostic images regardless of sonographer skill, and automate tedious tasks such as qualification, contouring, anatomical identification and labeling and auto completion of sections on final reports.