Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and method of controlling ultrasound diagnostic apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US12290400B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-05-06

    申请号:US17156498

    申请日:2021-01-22

    Inventor: Yoshiro Imai

    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus (1) includes an ultrasound probe (19), an image acquisition unit (8) that transmits an ultrasound beam toward a subject from the ultrasound probe (19) to sequentially acquire ultrasound images, a blood vessel detection unit (10) that detects a blood vessel included in the ultrasound image acquired by the image acquisition unit, a blood vessel discrimination unit (11) that discriminates whether the blood vessel detected by the blood vessel detection unit is a vein or an artery, and a discrimination execution deciding unit (15) that decides whether the blood vessel discrimination unit (11) newly executes discrimination with respect to the ultrasound image of a current frame based on a movement amount of the ultrasound probe or a change amount of the ultrasound image between frames.

    Acoustic wave diagnostic apparatus and control method thereof

    公开(公告)号:US11051786B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-07-06

    申请号:US15377534

    申请日:2016-12-13

    Inventor: Yoshiro Imai

    Abstract: An acoustic wave diagnostic apparatus and control method processing for transmitting an ultrasound pulse converging on a focusing position in the same direction of a subject from acoustic wave transducers to be driven, among a plurality of ultrasound transducers included in an ultrasound probe, while sequentially updating the acoustic wave transducers to be driven is performed multiple times for the same ultrasound transducers. An acoustic wave echo signal group is obtained by receiving an ultrasound echo of an observation target position in the ultrasound transducers. An autocorrelation operation is performed on a signal, which is obtained by correcting the positional deviation of an acoustic wave echo signal group based on the positional deviation between the focusing position and the observation target position, and an ultrasound echo signal without positional deviation, and a Doppler shift signal indicating the speed of the observation target position is generated.

    Acoustic wave diagnostic apparatus and control method thereof

    公开(公告)号:US11771404B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-03

    申请号:US18046786

    申请日:2022-10-14

    Inventor: Yoshiro Imai

    Abstract: Periodic displacement occurs in body tissue due to heartbeat. A peak level D of the movement distance of the body tissue is detected (Step 21), and a heartbeat cycle T is calculated from a frequency spectrum (Steps 22 and 23). By dividing twice the peak level D by the heartbeat cycle T, the moving velocity of the body tissue in a unit heartbeat cycle is calculated (Step 24). By dividing the moving velocity by a frame rate r, an average movement distance of the body tissue between frames is calculated (Step 25). In a case where the average movement distance is smaller than a predetermined threshold value, a time interval between the frames used for the calculation of the movement distance is extended (being Step 26 NO, Step 27).

    Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and method for determination of an imaging part

    公开(公告)号:US11134920B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-05

    申请号:US16059234

    申请日:2018-08-09

    Inventor: Yoshiro Imai

    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: a collation pattern memory that stores a plurality of collation patterns corresponding to a plurality of examination parts of a subject in advance; an information input unit that is used by a user to input examination type information; a determination order decision unit that decides a determination order of the plurality of examination parts to be continuously examined, on the basis of the examination type information input to the information input unit; and a part determination unit that reads the collation patterns corresponding to the examination parts to be continuously examined from the collation pattern memory according to the determination order decided by the determination order decision unit and sequentially collates the ultrasound image in the determination order using the read collation patterns to determine an imaging part of the subject.

    Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and method for controlling ultrasound diagnostic apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US10918360B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-16

    申请号:US15881040

    申请日:2018-01-26

    Inventor: Yoshiro Imai

    Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe; an imaging unit that transmits and receives an ultrasound beam to and from a subject using the ultrasound probe and converts a received signal output from the ultrasound probe into an image to generate an ultrasound image of the subject, according to set imaging conditions; a part determination unit that determines an imaging part of the subject using the ultrasound image generated by the imaging unit; a determination result storage unit that stores determination results corresponding to a plurality of frames obtained by the part determination unit; and a determination result integration unit that integrates the determination results corresponding to the plurality of frames stored in the determination result storage unit and outputs an integrated determination result.

    Image processing apparatus, endoscope system, and image processing method

    公开(公告)号:US10672123B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-06-02

    申请号:US15928102

    申请日:2018-03-22

    Inventor: Yoshiro Imai

    Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of endoscope images obtained by imaging an observation target at different times with an endoscope; a blood vessel extraction unit that extracts blood vessels of the observation target from the plurality of endoscope images; a blood vessel information calculation unit that calculates a plurality of pieces of blood vessel information for each of the blood vessels extracted from the endoscope images; a blood vessel parameter calculation unit that calculates a blood vessel parameter, which is relevant to the blood vessel extracted from each of the endoscope images, by calculation using the blood vessel information; and a blood vessel change index calculation unit that calculates a blood vessel change index, which indicates a temporal change of the blood vessel, using the blood vessel parameter.

    Acoustic wave diagnostic apparatus and control method thereof

    公开(公告)号:US11497477B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-15

    申请号:US15941178

    申请日:2018-03-30

    Inventor: Yoshiro Imai

    Abstract: Periodic displacement occurs in body tissue due to heartbeat. A peak level D of the movement distance of the body tissue is detected (Step 21), and a heartbeat cycle T is calculated from a frequency spectrum (Steps 22 and 23). By dividing twice the peak level D by the heartbeat cycle T, the moving velocity of the body tissue in a unit heartbeat cycle is calculated (Step 24). By dividing the moving velocity by a frame rate r, an average movement distance of the body tissue between frames is calculated (Step 25). In a case where the average movement distance is smaller than a predetermined threshold value, a time interval between the frames used for the calculation of the movement distance is extended (being Step 26 NO, Step 27).

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