Digital Medical Ultrasound Imaging
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In the LightProbe project, we are exploring the next generation of medical ultrasound imaging systems: The LightProbe is a programmable ultrasound transducer head, which incorporates the entire analog frontend and directly outputs the captured digital samples. This allows the LightProbe to be directly connected to any commodity hardware (phone, tablet, workstation) for post-processing over a standard digital link as simple as a standard peripheral, like a camera.
The LightProbe has two main challenges: The involved ten's of Gb/s data-rates produced by the frontend, which need to be processed and transported off-head, and the power/thermal constraints of such a high-performance handheld device.
This is an ongoing project at our lab and we are looking for motivated students to contribute on the following topics:
- Implementation of processing subunits: Hardware design FPGA/ASIC (VHDL/HLS)
- Programming of software functions: Microcontroller Programming / Processing system programming (C/C++/CUDA)
- System level design: Hardware software interactions, multi FPGA system, high bandwidth links (VIVADO/IP/HW-SW Codesign)
- Power/Thermal optimization: Modelling, Control, Task Scheduling (Matlab)
- Ultrasond imaging algorithm development/improvements/tailoring for implementation (Matlab)
- PCB Design
If you are interested in any of the above topics, contact us.
Highlights of Past Projects
LightProbe+, Highspeed (12.5GHz) PCB - Master Thesis Raphael Strebel
Wireless Ultrasound Imaging - Master Thesis Matthias Brägger
High-speed (200fps) bubble tracking - Semester Thesis Pascal Jud
Open Projects
This is a fast-evolving project. If you are interested in this project and want to do something in the areas mentioned above, come to see us to discuss up-to-date project opportunities!
- Continual Learning for Adaptive EEG Monitoring in Epileptic Seizure Detection
- Predict eye movement through brain activity
- Ultrasound image data recycler
- Design of combined Ultrasound and PPG systems
- Improving datarate and efficiency of ultra low power wearable ultrasound
- Battery indifferent wearable Ultrasound
- Wearable Ultrasound for Artery monitoring
- Ultrasound Doppler system development
- Machine Learning for extracting Muscle features from Ultrasound raw data
- Smart e-glasses for concealed recording of EEG signals
- Self Aware Epilepsy Monitoring
- EEG artifact detection with machine learning
- EEG artifact detection for epilepsy monitoring
- Automatic unplugging detection for Ultrasound probes
- Machine Learning on Ultrasound Images
- Nanoelectrode array biosensors - programmable non-overlapping clocks generator project
- Visualizing Functional Microbubbles using Ultrasound Imaging
Projects in Progress
Completed Projects
- LightProbe - WIFI extension (PCB)
- Intelligent Power Management Unit (iPMU)
- Ultrafast Medical Ultrasound imaging on a GPU
- LightProbe - Implementation of compressed-sensing algorithms
- Implementing Hibernation on the ARM Cortex M0
- Hardware/software co-programming on the Parallella platform
- Efficient Digital Signal Processing in High-Channel-Count High-Frame-Rate 3D Ultrasound Imaging Systems
