Systems, devices, and methods are provided to provide workflow assistance to an operator during a medical imaging procedure, such as an ultrasound evaluation of a body vessel of a subject. A sensor such as a gyroscope may be integrated in an external ultrasound probe. Workflow assistance may be provided to position the ultrasound probe to make accurate flow measurements of fluid within the vessel, such as by coupling color flow information with gyroscope angles. The system may also be used to create a vessel map.

A hierarchical workflow is configured to associate examination information captured using an imaging platform with contextual metadata. The examination information may include ultrasound image data, which may be associated with annotations, measurements, pathology, body markers, and/or the like. The hierarchical workflow may comprise templates associated with respective anatomical regions, locations, volumes, and/or surfaces. A template may define configuration data to automatically adapt the imaging platform to capture imaging data in the corresponding anatomical region. The template may further include guidance information for the operator, including processing steps for capturing relevant examination information. Additional examination information may be captured and included in the hierarchical workflow.

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus has: an image acquiring unit that transmits/receives an ultrasound beam from an ultrasound probe to acquire an ultrasound image; a part probability calculating unit that calculates, for the ultrasound image acquired in accordance with a first measurement method, a probability that a part included in the ultrasound image is a specific part from at least one of an orientation angle of the ultrasound probe or an analysis result of the ultrasound image; and a measurement method changing unit that changes, when the probability is greater than or equal to a threshold value, the first measurement method to a second measurement method for identifying the part for which the probability has been calculated, in which an ultrasound image is further acquired by using the second measurement method.

An ultrasonic image display system and a program for controlling an ultrasonic image display system are disclosed herein. The ultrasonic image display system includes at least one processor and memory. In the memory is stored at least one protocol including a plurality of image acquisition steps. The processor is adapted to load the protocol to start a first run of the protocol, interrupt the first run of the protocol, acquire data for a second ultrasonic image of the patient and store the data in the memory after interrupting the first run of the protocol at one of the acquisition steps. The processor is adapted to interrupt the second run of the protocol at the same one of the acquisition steps or give notice that the second run of the protocol will be interrupted at the same one of the acquisition steps.

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an imaging unit that converts a received signal output from an ultrasound probe into an image to generate an ultrasound image; an input unit that is used by a user to input patient information; a memory unit that stores content of an examination for continuously examining a plurality of examination parts so as to be associated with the patient information; an examination situation determination unit that, in a case in which new patient information is input to the input unit during the continuous examination, determines whether the examination of all of the plurality of examination parts related to the content of the examination associated with the patient information has ended; and a tag giving unit that gives an examination interruption tag to the patient information in a case in which it is determined that the examination of all of the plurality of examination parts has not ended and gives an examination end tag to the patient information in a case in which it is determined that the examination of all of the plurality of examination parts has ended.

The present disclosure describes ultrasound imaging systems and methods for ultrasonically inspecting biological tissue. An ultrasound imaging system according to the present disclosure may be configured to automatically apply tissue-specific imaging parameter settings (312, 314) based upon the automatic identification of the type of tissue being scanned. Tissue type identification (315) may be performed automatically for the images in the live image stream (304) and thus adjustments to the imaging settings may be applied automatically by using a neural network (320) and thus dynamically during the exam obviating the need for the sonographer to manually switch presets or adjust the imaging settings when moving to different portion of the anatomy.

During acquisition of an ultrasound image feed, ultrasound control data frames are acquired that may be interspersed amongst the ultrasound data frames. The control data frames may use consistent reference scan parameters, irrespective of the scanner settings, and may not need to be converted to image frames. The control data frames can be passed to an artificial intelligence model, which predicts the suitable settings for scanning the anatomy that is being scanned. The artificial intelligence model can be trained with a dataset containing different classes of ultrasound control data frames for different settings, where substantially all the ultrasound control data frames in the dataset are consistently acquired using the reference scan parameters.

An ultrasound probe contains an array transducer and a microbeamformer coupled to elements of the array. The microbeamformer comprises analog to digital converters and digital beamforming circuitry for at least thirty-two digital channels in the microbeamformer. Preferably the analog to digital converters are low power ADCs for reduced power consumption in the probe. Integrated circuits of thirty-two channels can be cascaded to produce 64-channel and 128-channel digital microbeamformers for an ultrasound array probe.

A multiple aperture ultrasound imaging system may be configured to store raw, un-beamformed echo data. Stored echo data may be retrieved and re-beamformed using modified parameters in order to enhance the image or to reveal information that was not visible or not discernible in an original image. Raw echo data may also be transmitted over a network and beamformed by a remote device that is not physically proximate to the probe performing imaging. Such systems may allow physicians or other practitioners to manipulate echo data as though they were imaging the patient directly, even without the patient being present. Many unique diagnostic opportunities are made possible by such systems and methods.

In an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and an operation method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus of the invention, a control circuit performs polarization processing on a plurality of ultrasound transducers in a non-diagnosis period, during which transmission of ultrasound waves and reception of reflected waves for performing ultrasound diagnosis are not performed, in a case where the cumulative driving time of the plurality of ultrasound transducers for performing the ultrasound diagnosis becomes equal to or longer than a specified time. A transmission circuit generates a first transmission signal having a driving voltage for performing ultrasound diagnosis using a pulse generation circuit in the case of performing the ultrasound diagnosis, and generates a second transmission signal having a polarization voltage for performing polarization processing using the same pulse generation circuit as in the case of generating the first transmission signal in the case of performing the polarization processing.