Systems and methods for placing a gate and/or a color box during ultrasound imaging
AssigneeClarius Mobile Health Corp.
InventorsKris Dickie, Laurent Pelissier
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Abstract
A method for positioning one or both of a gate and a color box on an ultrasound image generated during scanning of an anatomical feature using an ultrasound scanner comprises deploying an artificial intelligence (AI) model to execute on a computing device communicably connected to the ultrasound scanner, wherein the AI model is trained so that when the AI model is deployed, the computing device generates a prediction of at least one of an optimal position, size, or angle for the gate and/or an optimal location/size of the color box on the ultrasound image generated during ultrasound scanning of the anatomical feature, thereafter enabling the acquisition of corresponding Doppler mode signals.
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A method comprising:
- deploying a neural network configured with an artificial intelligence (AI) model to execute on a computing device communicably connected to an ultrasound scanner, wherein the neural network configured with the AI model is trained to identify, in an ultrasound image comprising a blood vessel, a gate position and at least one of a gate size and a gate angle, by delineating the gate from other non-gate image areas;
- acquiring, at the computing device via the ultrasound scanner, a new ultrasound image of an imaged blood vessel;
- processing, using the neural network configured with the AI model, the new ultrasound image, wherein the neural network configured with the AI model identifies and generates a predicted gate having a gate position and at least one of a gate size and a gate angle, by delineating the gate from other non-gate image areas, wherein the at least one of the gate size and gate angle match the imaged blood vessel in the new ultrasound image;
- employing the predicted gate to enable corresponding Doppler mode signals;
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- displaying the Doppler mode signals;
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- displaying the new ultrasound image with the predicted gate, having the at least one of the gate size and the gate angle matching the imaged blood vessel, superimposed on the imaged blood vessel.
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