Acoustic wave diagnostic apparatus and method of controlling acoustic wave diagnostic apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorYoshiro Imai
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Abstract
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus 1 sequentially displays ultrasound images of a plurality of continuous frames during imaging on a display unit 8, and includes a measurement target recognition unit 9 that automatically recognizes a measurement target included in an ultrasound image of a present frame displayed on the display unit 8, a measurement algorithm setting unit 12 that sets a measurement algorithm for the measurement target recognized by the measurement target recognition unit 9, and a measurement unit 10 that measures the measurement target based on the measurement algorithm set by the measurement algorithm setting unit 12 and displays a measurement result on the display unit 8 to be superimposed on the ultrasound image of the present frame.
Claims15
An acoustic wave diagnostic apparatus that sequentially displays acoustic wave images of a plurality of continuous frames during imaging on a display monitor, the acoustic wave diagnostic apparatus comprising:
- an image memory;
- and
- a processor configured to
- store measurement algorithms corresponding to a plurality of predetermined organs,
- automatically discriminate a type of a measurement target included in an acoustic wave image of a present frame displayed on the display monitor, as one organ among the plurality of predetermined organs, by using a machine learning,
- automatically select and set a measurement algorithm corresponding to the one organ among the measurement algorithms,
- measure the measurement target based on the measurement algorithm corresponding to the one organ and display a measurement result on the display monitor to be superimposed on the acoustic wave image of the present frame,
- determine whether or not the acoustic wave image of the present frame among the plurality of continuous frames during imaging includes an optimum cross section of the measurement target, and
- save the acoustic wave image of the present frame which is determined to include the optimum cross section and the measurement result corresponding to the present frame to the image memory by overwriting the acoustic wave image and the measurement result which have been already saved in the image memory.
A method of controlling an acoustic wave diagnostic apparatus that sequentially displays acoustic wave images of a plurality of continuous frames during imaging on a display monitor, the method comprising:
- storing measurement algorithms corresponding to a plurality of predetermined organs;
- automatically discriminating a type of a measurement target included in an acoustic wave image of a present frame displayed on the display monitor, as one organ among the plurality of predetermined organs, by using a machine learning;
- automatically selecting and setting a measurement algorithm corresponding to the one organ among the measurement algorithms;
- measuring the measurement target based on the measurement algorithm corresponding to the one organ;
- and
- displaying a measurement result on the display monitor to be superimposed on the acoustic wave image of the present frame;
- determining whether or not the acoustic wave image of the present frame among the plurality of continuous frames during imaging includes an optimum cross section of the measurement target;
- and
- saving acoustic wave image of the present frame which is determined to include the optimum cross section and the measurement result corresponding to the present frame to an image memory by overwriting the acoustic wave image and the measurement result which have been already saved.
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