https://github.com/scikit-surgery/what-is-it

A browser based game examining the challenges of partial visibility and speckle during utrasound imaging
https://github.com/scikit-surgery/what-is-it

partial-visibility quickdraw scikit-surgery speckle-noise ucl ultrasound

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A browser based game examining the challenges of partial visibility and speckle during utrasound imaging

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/scikit-surgery/what-is-it
• Owner: SciKit-Surgery
• License: other
• Created: 2022-03-09T10:35:08.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-06-04T15:04:41.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-09-05T01:58:25.858Z (9 months ago)
• Topics: partial-visibility, quickdraw, scikit-surgery, speckle-noise, ucl, ultrasound
• Homepage: https://scikit-surgery.github.io/what-is-it/
• Size: 126 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
  • Citation: CITATION.cff

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README

          
What Is It ?

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Author: Stephen Thompson

what-is-it is a browser based game. It was developed primarily to study and

communicate the problem of "limited field of view", how does only seeing

part of an object effect our ability to identify the object? Limited field of

view is a common problem in key hole surgery where the surgeon is only

able to see a tiny part of the anatomy through a key hole camera.

To make what-is-it playable for non surgeons we've used drawings of

everyday objects taken from The from Google's `Quickdraw`_ data set.

Each drawing is drawn by a human and

correctly identified by Google's AI.

The game starts with complete images, and a multiple choice list from which

you can select the most likely answer. Once you've warmed up

(got 3 correct answers in a row)

we introduce an image mask based on a

medical ultrasound probe to make it harder. We used an ultrasound probe

as a second aspect of the game design was to study ways to simulate

ultrasound imaging for the general public.

The presence of speckle type noise is

often cited as a difficulty in using ultrasound imaging.

Play it `here`_

what-is-it is developed with the support of the `Wellcome EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences`_ as part of the `SciKit-Surgery`_ software project.

Licensing and copyright

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Copyright 2019 Stephen Thompson.

What is It? is released under the BSD-3 license. Please see the `license file`_ for details.

Acknowledgements

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Supported by `Wellcome`_ and `EPSRC`_.

.. _`Quickdraw`: https://github.com/googlecreativelab/quickdraw-dataset

.. _`Wellcome`: https://wellcome.ac.uk/

.. _`EPSRC`: https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/

.. _`here`: https://scikit-surgery.github.io/what-is-it/

.. _`license file`: https://github.com/SciKit-Surgery/what-is-it/blob/master/LICENSE

.. _`SciKit-Surgery`: https://github.com/SciKit-Surgery/

.. _`Wellcome EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences`: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/weiss