A61B8/467

Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus for measuring and displaying elasticity of object and method of operating the same
11576654 · 2023-02-14 · ·

Provided are a method and ultrasound diagnosis apparatus for measuring and displaying an elasticity of an object. The ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes: a processor configured to obtain elasticity data of a measurement target region of an object, calculate elasticity values of a plurality of regions included in the measurement target region based on the elasticity data by using different calculating methods, and combine the calculated elasticity values of the plurality of regions to calculate a final elasticity value; and a display configured to display the final elasticity value.

System and method for orientating capture of ultrasound images

A downloadable navigator for a mobile ultrasound unit having an ultrasound probe, implemented on a portable computing device. The navigator includes a trained orientation neural network to receive a non-canonical image of a body part from the mobile ultrasound unit and to generate a transformation associated with the non-canonical image, the transformation transforming from a position and rotation associated with a canonical image to a position and rotation associated with the non-canonical image; and a result converter to convert the transformation into orientation instructions for a user of the probe and to provide and display the orientation instructions to the user to change the position and rotation of the probe.

Integrated system for intravascular placement of a catheter

An integrated catheter placement system for placing a catheter in a vasculature of a patient. The system includes a system console with a tip location mode and an ultrasound mode viewable on a display, a magnetic assembly emanating a magnetic field, a tip location sensor designed to sense the magnetic field, and an ultrasound probe for ultrasonically imaging an internal portion of the patient. The magnetic field may provide magnetic field information for locating the magnetic assembly relative to the tip location sensor. The tip location sensor is designed to communicate the magnetic field information to the system console. The system console is designed to display an icon representative of a location of the magnetic assembly relative to the tip location sensor in the tip location mode.

Methods and systems for shear wave elastography

Various methods and systems are provided for ultrasound imaging. In one embodiment, a method comprises acquiring, with an ultrasound transducer of a scanning apparatus during an ultrasound scan of a patient, an ultrasound image, detecting, with an artificial intelligence model, a region of interest within the ultrasound image including a possible tumor, acquiring, with the ultrasound transducer, an elastic image of tissue within the region of interest, and displaying, with a display device, the elastic image. In this way, shear wave elastography may be automatically targeted to a region of interest, thereby reducing the processing load for the analysis and enabling a higher elasticity imaging frame rate for three-dimensional ultrasound imaging.

ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSIS APPARATUS CONNECTED TO WIRELESS ULTRASOUND PROBES AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME

Provided are an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus connected to wireless ultrasound probes and a method of operating the ultrasound diagnosis apparatus. The ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes: a communicator connected with a plurality of different wireless probes through a wireless communication method by receiving pairing reception signals from the plurality of wireless ultrasound probes; a controller configured to control the communicator to wirelessly connect the ultrasound diagnosis apparatus with the plurality of wireless ultrasound probes and to wirelessly receive status information regarding the connected plurality of wireless ultrasound probes; and a display configured to display a user interface (UI) indicating the received status information regarding the plurality of wireless ultrasound probes.

ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS
20230233186 · 2023-07-27 · ·

An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus (1) includes an ultrasound probe (2) and a diagnostic apparatus body (3) connected to the ultrasound probe (2), in which the diagnostic apparatus body (3) includes a monitor (15) on which an ultrasound diagnosis image and a plurality of diagnostic finding icons corresponding to a plurality of determined diagnostic findings are displayed, a similarity determination unit (18) that determines similarity between the ultrasound diagnosis image and each of a plurality of image patterns corresponding to the plurality of diagnostic findings, and a display position changing unit (19) that changes display positions of the plurality of diagnostic finding icons on the monitor in accordance with the similarity determined by the similarity determination unit (18).

Ultrasound imaging apparatus and control method thereof

An ultrasound imaging apparatus and a control method thereof. The ultrasound imaging apparatus may include: a display; a communication unit; and a processor configured to be operatively connected to the display and the communication unit. The processor may obtain a first ultrasound image of a subject and a result of an analysis of the first ultrasound image. The processor may also control the display to display a user interface, which allows selection of an operating mode of the ultrasound imaging apparatus, based on the result of the analysis.

ULTRASOUND DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS
20230233185 · 2023-07-27 ·

Provided is an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including a touch panel monitor and a palm rest that supports a hand when a touch operation is performed on the touch panel monitor.

3-D ULTRASOUND CORONAROGRAPHY, A NON-IONIZING AND NON-INVASIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR MULTI-SCALE ANATOMICAL AND FUNCTIONAL IMAGING OF CORONARY CIRCULATION

The present invention relates to the field of ultrasounds and imagining of the coronary blood flow of the heart. Patients with coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD) have poor prognostic with significantly higher rates of cardiovascular events, including hospitalization for heart failure, sudden cardiac death, and myocardial infarction (MI). Despite the urgent clinical need, there are no non-ionizing and non-invasive techniques available in clinic to directly visualize the coronary microvasculature and assess the local coronary microvascular system. Flow imaging remains a difficult task to perform in the heart because of the fast movements of this organ. In order to overcome the limitations of actual imaging methods for the coronary blood flow, the inventors proposed an ultrasound ultrafast imaging method that automatically detect the time periods in which the myocardium velocity is low and estimate the coronary flow velocity and the tissue velocity from the same data acquisition.

Ultrasound imaging apparatus with image selector

An ultrasound imaging system includes a cine buffer in which image frames produced during an examination are stored. A processor is programmed to select one or more image frames from the cine buffer for presentation to an operator for approval and inclusion in a patient record or other report. The operator can accept the proposed image frames or can select one or more other image frames from the cine buffer. The processor may select image frames at spaced intervals in the cine buffer for presentation. Alternatively, the processor compares image frames in the cine buffer with one or more target image frames. Image frames that are similar to the target image frames are presented to the operator to confirm. Alternatively, image frames can be selected by the processor that contain a specific feature or that are similar to image frames that were previously selected by the operator when performing a particular type of examination.