SOFTWARE FOR TESTING NOVEL ALGORITHMS IN ULTRASOUND IMAGING

New methods for digital processing of ultrasound medical imaging signals are regularly published in scientific articles. However, often these methods, even if they are aimed at solving the same problem, are difficult to compare with each other, because the algorithms were implemented using different programming languages and tested in different simulators under hardly comparable conditions. Therefore, the development that would allow standardizing the testing conditions of new algorithms for digital signal processing of ultrasonic diagnostics is relevant. The paper presents a model of ultrasound medical diagnostic system, which facilitates research of novel signal processing algorithms in color flow, elastography and grayscale imaging. It acquires radiofrequency signals from the beamformer input and reproduces all the processing stages for ultrasound imaging. This software will be of interest to developers of ultrasound visualization algorithms.