Three-dimensional ultrasound imaging diagnostic system under wireless communication networks

Three-dimension ultrasound (3DUS) imaging is in routine use in nearly all hospitals and many physician offices and clinics because it offers many benefits compared to other medical imaging techniques. Two of the major benefits are as follows. One is that the equipment of the 2D ultrasound image also is far less expensive to buy and maintain than MRI and CT imaging systems; the other one is that 3DUS imaging has been shown to be valuable for differentiating some aspects of benign and malignant disease. A typical medical image diagnostic system produces data streams which require a very reliable communication, but the environment for transmission, as provided by current and next-generation wireless communication networks, may be lost or within the limits of bandwidth or cause errors. Transmission provisions that avoid catastrophic failure caused by lost or errant packets are therefore very important in order to provide reliable visual communication over such systems. The paper presents an algorithm of 3D medical ultrasound breast tumor diagnostic techniques and resolves the transmission problem over wireless communication networks.