Journal: The Ultrasound Journal

Article Title: Tele-education in point-of-care ultrasound training

doi: 10.1186/s13089-024-00394-1

Figure Lengend Snippet: Appearance of the 2-way communication system. (Fig. 3. Legends) Left: An ultrasound cart placed in the learners’ room. The cart featured essential components, including a speakerphone, a webcam mounted on a flexible modular hose for direct visualization of learner’s hand maneuvers, and an analog-to-video converter, which enabled the real-time streaming of ultrasound images. This configuration allowed learners to receive immediate verbal feedback from the remote instructor via the speaker. Right: The instructor’s view. The real-time verbal feedback was provided to the learner based on dual video feeds: one from the ultrasound machine and the other from the webcam capturing the learner’s hand maneuvers

Article Snippet: The most challenging part was to develop an audio-visual system configuration that would enable simultaneous live streaming of ultrasound images and verbal communications between a remote instructor and learners, since timely feedback was known to be one of the important elements of successful training [ , , ], In the present study, live video inputs from the ultrasound machine and the webcam were integrated into the Vidyo interface in conjunction with the audio input from the speakerphone, allowing a successful tele-coaching platform on the remote instructor’s desktop computer with top-bottom dual-video feeds.

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