公开(公告)号：US12193873B2

公开(公告)日：2025-01-14

申请号：US17575141

申请日：2022-01-13

Applicant: GE Precision Healthcare LLC

Inventor： Svein Arne Aase ,  Andrew Gilbert

IPC: A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/02 ,  A61B8/08 ,  A61B8/12

Abstract: A system and method is provided for obtaining ultrasound images of an interior of an object that includes an image processing unit that receives and processes acquired ultrasound scan data to create ultrasound images derived from ultrasound image data, a motion detection system configured to detect a pattern of inactivity time frames within movement cycles of the object and an ultrasound imaging probe operably connected to the image processing unit to acquire the ultrasound scan data for use by the image processing unit to form the ultrasound images. The motion detection system detects a pattern of one or more inactivity time frames within a first cycle of movement of the object, obtains ultrasound volumetric scan data of the object during the inactivity time frame within a second cycle of movement of the object, and calibrates a location of a scan plane of the ultrasound image within the volumetric ultrasound image.

公开(公告)号：US20240260944A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-08

申请号：US18617323

申请日：2024-03-26

Applicant: GE Precision Healthcare LLC

Inventor： Svein Arne Aase ,  Siying Wang ,  Sten Roar Snare

IPC: A61B8/08 ,  A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/02 ,  G16H30/20

CPC classification number: A61B8/5223 ,  A61B8/02 ,  A61B8/463 ,  A61B8/465 ,  A61B8/467 ,  A61B8/485 ,  A61B8/488 ,  A61B8/5207 ,  G16H30/20

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for performing automated measurements on medical images. In one example, a method includes acquiring a first ultrasound image and a second ultrasound image in accordance with a patient exam workflow, wherein the patient exam workflow calls for one or more measurements including a first measurement to be obtained on at least the first ultrasound image, automatically assessing whether the first ultrasound image is suitable for obtaining the first measurement during a time period where the second ultrasound image is being acquired, and if the first ultrasound image is automatically assessed as being unsuitable for obtaining the first measurement, automatically prompting the user, while the second ultrasound image is still being acquired, to reacquire the first ultrasound image.

公开(公告)号：US20240212134A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-27

申请号：US18086372

申请日：2022-12-21

Applicant: GE Precision Healthcare LLC

Inventor： Svein Arne Aase ,  Kai-Uwe Lempertz

IPC: G06T7/00 ,  A61B8/00 ,  G06V10/26

CPC classification number: G06T7/0012 ,  A61B8/463 ,  A61B8/54 ,  G06V10/26 ,  G06T2207/10132 ,  G06T2207/30048 ,  G06V2201/031

Abstract: A system and method for providing an objective image quality metric of an image loop of ultrasound images after acquisition of the image loop and prior to permanently storing the image loop is provided. The method includes performing, by an ultrasound probe of an ultrasound system, an acquisition of an image loop of a plurality of ultrasound images. The method includes stop performing the acquisition by the ultrasound probe of the image loop of the plurality of ultrasound images. The method includes processing, by at least one processor of the ultrasound system after the stop performing the acquisition by the ultrasound probe, the image loop of the plurality of ultrasound images to generate an objective image quality metric. The method includes causing, by the at least one processor, a display system to present a visual representation of the objective image quality metric.

公开(公告)号：US20220211342A1

公开(公告)日：2022-07-07

申请号：US17141444

申请日：2021-01-05

Applicant: GE Precision Healthcare LLC

Inventor： Andrew Gilbert ,  Gunnar Hansen ,  Svein Arne Aase ,  Andreas Heimdal

IPC: A61B8/08 ,  A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/14

Abstract: An automated measurement system for an ultrasound and/or echocardiographic imaging system enhances reproducibility of measurement results and accommodates form movement in the measurement of the images by combining measurements across multiple cardiac cycles/multiple echocardiogram images. The automated system provides these benefits by initially selecting the cardiac images/cycles for which valid measurements can be obtained within constraints defined by the automated system. With these selected cycles, the automated system then combines the measurements from the selected cycles into a global measurement for the desired parameter or parameters for the combined cycles. This measurement(s) can then be presented to the operator in conjunction with the image or cycle representation for the cycle best approximating the global measurement results, optionally along with the results for the deviation of the combined measurements in the form of display icons representing the deviation from the illustrated cycle image.

公开(公告)号：US11308609B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-19

申请号：US16703547

申请日：2019-12-04

Applicant: GE Precision Healthcare LLC

Inventor： Pavan Annangi ,  Hariharan Ravishankar ,  Tore Bjaastad ,  Erik Normann Steen ,  Svein Arne Aase ,  Rohan Patil

IPC: G06T7/00 ,  A61B8/08

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for sequentially selecting scan parameter values for ultrasound imaging. In one example, a method includes selecting a first parameter value for the a first scan parameter based on an image quality of each ultrasound image of a first plurality of ultrasound images of an anatomical region, each ultrasound image of the first plurality of ultrasound images having a different parameter value for the first scan parameter, selecting a second parameter value for a second scan parameter based on an image quality of each ultrasound image of a second plurality of ultrasound images of the anatomical region, each ultrasound image of the second plurality of ultrasound images having a different parameter value for the second scan parameter, and applying the first parameter value for the first scan parameter and the second parameter value for the second scan parameter to one or more additional ultrasound images.

公开(公告)号：US20210192291A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-24

申请号：US16722491

申请日：2019-12-20

Applicant: GE Precision Healthcare LLC

Inventor： Kristin Sarah McLeod ,  Svein Arne Aase

IPC: G06K9/62

Abstract: Continuous training of an artificial intelligence (AI) model for an ultrasound scanner is provided. A method for the training comprises generating an image of a target using an AI model, detecting, by a processor, a correction of the target image by an operator. One or both of the following may be saved: the corrected image, and the target image and correction data to the target image. The ultrasound scanner may initiate training the AI model using one of: the corrected image and the target image and correction data for the target image.

公开(公告)号：US20210169455A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-10

申请号：US16703360

申请日：2019-12-04

Applicant: GE Precision Healthcare LLC

Inventor： Pavan Kumar V Annangi ,  Hariharan Ravishankar ,  Tore Bjaastad ,  Svein Arne Aase ,  Erik Normann Steen

IPC: A61B8/08 ,  G06T7/00

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for improving image quality of ultrasound images by jointly selecting optimal scan parameter values. In one example, a method includes acquiring a plurality of ultrasound images of an anatomical region, each ultrasound image acquired at a different combination of parameter values for a first scan parameter and a second scan parameter, selecting a first parameter value for the first scan parameter and a second parameter value for the second scan parameter based on an image quality of each image, and acquiring one or more additional ultrasound images at the first parameter value and the second parameter value.

公开(公告)号：US20240283892A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-22

申请号：US18170283

申请日：2023-02-16

Applicant: GE Precision Healthcare LLC

Inventor： Svein Arne Aase

IPC: H04N5/783 ,  A61B8/08 ,  G06T3/40

CPC classification number: H04N5/783 ,  A61B8/0883 ,  G06T3/40

Abstract: A system and method for displaying a sequence of image frames as a cine-loop with multiple playback speeds. The system and method includes accessing a sequence of image frames representing at least one cardiac cycle. The system and method includes identifying a target sequence of image frames including a cardiac event, wherein the target sequence of image frames is a subset of the sequence of image frames. The system and method includes displaying the sequence of image frames on the display device as a cine-loop with multiple playback speeds, where a portion of the sequence of image frames that is not part of the target sequence of image frames is displayed at a first playback speed, and where the target sequence of image frames is displayed at a second playback speed that is slower than the first playback speed.

公开(公告)号：US11944501B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-02

申请号：US17651389

申请日：2022-02-16

Applicant: GE Precision Healthcare LLC

Inventor： Svein Arne Aase ,  Siying Wang ,  Sten Roar Snare

IPC: A61B8/08 ,  A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/02 ,  G16H30/20

CPC classification number: A61B8/5223 ,  A61B8/02 ,  A61B8/463 ,  A61B8/465 ,  A61B8/467 ,  A61B8/485 ,  A61B8/488 ,  A61B8/5207 ,  G16H30/20

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for performing automated measurements on medical images. In one example, a method includes acquiring a first ultrasound image and a second ultrasound image in accordance with a patient exam workflow, wherein the patient exam workflow calls for one or more measurements including a first measurement to be obtained on at least the first ultrasound image, automatically assessing whether the first ultrasound image is suitable for obtaining the first measurement during a time period where the second ultrasound image is being acquired, and if the first ultrasound image is automatically assessed as being unsuitable for obtaining the first measurement, automatically prompting the user, while the second ultrasound image is still being acquired, to reacquire the first ultrasound image.

公开(公告)号：US11931206B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-19

申请号：US17864197

申请日：2022-07-13

Applicant: GE Precision Healthcare LLC

Inventor： Svein Arne Aase ,  Brian J. Lesniak ,  Carolina Bonilla Herrando

IPC: A61B8/00 ,  A61B8/08

CPC classification number: A61B8/463 ,  A61B8/08 ,  A61B8/483

Abstract: An ultrasound imaging system and method of ultrasound imaging. The method includes initiating a live ultrasound scanning session and saving a first sequence of images in a volatile memory. The method includes receiving a store command while in a retrospective image capture mode during the live ultrasound scanning session. The method includes detecting that the first sequence of images does not meet a length threshold and automatically continuing to acquire a second sequence of images. The method includes detecting that the combination of the first sequence of images and the second sequence of images meets or exceeds the length threshold and saving a third sequence of images as a cineloop in a non-volatile memory, the third sequence of images including both at least a portion of the first sequence of images and at least a portion of the second sequence of images.