Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for ultrasound examination
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Application No.: US15532008Application Date: 2015-12-01
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Publication No.: US10786227B2Publication Date: 2020-09-29
- Inventor: Hidenori Sakanashi , Hirokazu Nosato , Masaya Iwata , Eiichi Takahashi , Yuudai Yamazaki
- Applicant: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@25fb292
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/083773 WO 20151201
- International Announcement: WO2016/088758 WO 20160609
- Main IPC: A61B8/08
- IPC: A61B8/08 ; G06T7/00

Abstract:
The ultrasound examination system automatically detects a lesion, based on a dynamic image including a plurality of frame arrays that are temporally continuous and are output from the ultrasound examination apparatus with an ultrasonic probe being manipulated. Detection accuracy of the ultrasound examination system can be increased. A feature extractor in a frame checker extracts cubic higher-order local autocorrelation features from each frame of a plurality frames that constitute a dynamic image of a human body part as obtained from an ultrasound examination apparatus while an examiner manipulates an ultrasonic probe on the examinee. A final determinator determines that the frame in question is a normal frame when a speed determinator determines that the speed of the ultrasonic probe is not a normal speed even though the frame in question can be determined as an abnormal frame containing a lesion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170258451A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ULTRASOUND EXAMINATION Public/Granted day:2017-09-14
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