Software Developed for Fetal Ultrasound Applications

New proprietary software can now automate the acquisition of ultrasound images used by physicians to diagnose fetal heart defects.

The software has been designed for use with the Voluson 730 Expert ultrasound system, developed by GE Healthcare (Chalfont St. Giles, UK), and is called sonography-based volume computer-aided diagnosis (SonoVCAD), which was first launched on the GE Voluson E8 ultrasound system in 2006.

GE licensed SonoVCAD, patented by Dr. Alfred Abuhamad, a fetal medicine specialist from Eastern Virginia Medical School (Norfolk, USA), who developed the automation protocol. Dr. Abuhamad's protocol automates the acquisition of images to display the planes that are needed for a complete ultrasound evaluation with a four-chamber view of the fetal heart. Dr. Abuhamad has created algorithms that allow the other planes to be generated from that four-chamber view. Those views allow physicians to identify the type and severity of fetal heart defects.


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