# Loading GE Ultrasound 

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/loading-ge-ultrasound/40298>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** dicom, ultrasound\
**Created:** [November 20, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/loading-ge-ultrasound/40298 "2024-11-20T21:02:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![ipintos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ipintos/32/78579_2.png) [@ipintos](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ipintos)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 9:02pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/loading-ge-ultrasound/40298/1 "2024-11-20T21:02:16Z")

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Hi all,

I have a set of US data from a couple of patients that were exported from EchoPAC with the idea of working with raw data to train an AI model. The folder structure is:

```auto
TEST02
---DICOMDIR
---GEMS_DB
      | ____ ArcAudit.dbs
      | ____ ArcData.dbs
      | ____ ArcParam.dbs
      | ____ Master.db
      | ____ Master.log
---GEMS_IMG
      | ____ ---2019_DEC
               | ____ ---16
                        | ____ ---JV123120
                                 | ____ JCGCLG3C
                                 | ____ JCGCLK3E
                                 | ____...

```

I installed the SlicerHeart extension and followed the instructions in [SlicerHeart/Docs/ImageImportExport.md at master · SlicerHeart/SlicerHeart · GitHub](https://github.com/SlicerHeart/SlicerHeart/blob/master/Docs/ImageImportExport.md) (I got the DLL file and run regsvr32 Image3dLoaderGe.dll as administrator). Then I load the data from the DICOM database using the DICOMDIR file. As a result only two volumes (out of 68 files) get loaded as 3D volumes with time, each with an ECG table as shown in the image.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/4/0/405b2468a28c2e52e24dc33bddd671251312d12c.png)

The remaining files fail to load as US, but I can drop them and load as volumes. Though in that case they look like screen shots as shown below.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/1/b/1ba2ab5d5fbabebc6d98cf3add0831cb76359108.jpeg)

For the other patient data, which has the same structure, when loading with the DICOMDIR I get a warning message:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/7/a/7a556703c23c6c2a6cad00406f76d269929907df.png)

and when loaded the shape of the image is rectangular and no table appears, though the frame sequence runs with time.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/slicer/original/3X/7/2/72dc643b50eaf27230c777d695ba255c68f979f3.png)

How can I load all the data correctly? or is there a problem with the data? In that case, anyone knows how to export it to get all the infor and correct formats?

Operating system: Windows 11  
Slicer version: 5.6.2

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**Author:** ![lassoan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/lassoan/32/13_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2024, 9:11pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/loading-ge-ultrasound/40298/2 "2024-11-20T21:11:58Z")

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Loading of 3D+t ultrasound images look good.

You also seem to have some 2D+t ultrasound acquisitions, which are essentially screen captures from the ultrasound system. They are usually littered with burnt-in annotations and they are only 2D, but you can still make 2D measurements on them.

We improved import of these images in recent Slicer Preview Releases, so I would recommend to use that instead of the latest Slicer Stable Release (currently Slicer-5.6.2).

You may also find the [`Ultrasound` extension](https://github.com/SlicerUltrasound/SlicerUltrasound) useful. It can help with post-processing and annotating ultrasound image sequences for deep learning training.