Show HN: SONOGIF – Remove patient info from ultrasound movies
sonogif.com
sonogif.com
https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/sonogif/q0.mp4
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I am an emergency physician. My peers and I love to share interesting ultrasounds with each other on twitter. We do this for medical education, and to see great cases.
Some examples -- https://twitter.com/buckeye_sanjay/status/963104781815484416 https://twitter.com/EMNSpeedofSound/status/96131521371385856...
One problem we face is that ultrasound videos contain protected patient information, such as their medical record number or date of birth. Because of this videos must be edited with desktop software prior to sharing.
In the past couple of months I started to teach myself ReactJS and thought it would be fun to attempt to create an in browser video editor that we docs could use to anonymize ultrasound clips. The end result is www.sonogif.com.
The app uses the canvas object overlayed on top of a video tag. To render, react creates a local .png file for each video frame. The png files are uploaded to an express server, which converts them into an mp4 file and gif file.
This keeps patient information local and prevents it from every being transmitted to my server.
Anyway, download this ultrasound file and try it out yourself!