Systems and methods of dynamic image segmentation
AssigneeEdan Instruments, Inc.
InventorSeshadri Srinivasan
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Abstract
An ultrasound processing system includes an ultrasound interface, processing electronics, and display electronics. The ultrasound interface receives imaging information. The processing electronics are coupled to the ultrasound interface and configured to utilize the ultrasound imaging information to process an ultrasound scene for display. The processing electronics parse the scene into segments based on a plurality of automatically detected image characteristics and dynamically assign different processing parameters to different segments. Display electronics are coupled to the processing electronics and the processing electronics are configured to cause the display electronics to output the processed ultrasound scene.
Claims20
An ultrasound processing system, comprising:
- an ultrasound interface that receives ultrasound imaging information;
- processing electronics coupled to the ultrasound interface and configured to utilize the ultrasound imaging information to process an ultrasound scene for display, wherein the processing electronics parse the scene into segments based on a plurality of automatically detected image characteristics, wherein the processing electronics dynamically assigns different processing parameters to different segments;
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- display electronics coupled to the processing electronics, the processing electronics configured to cause the display electronics to output the processed ultrasound scene.
An ultrasound machine comprising:
- an ultrasound engine configured to receive ultrasound returns representative of an ultrasound scene for display;
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- an ultrasound processor configured to detect characteristics of different portions of a scene and to assign different segment tags to the different portions, wherein the ultrasound processor causes a display output to be generated after applying different processing to the different portions of the scene based on the segment tags.
A method of dynamic image segmentation for ultrasonography images, the method comprising:
- receiving an ultrasonography image;
- segmenting the ultrasonography image based on one or more features of the ultrasonography image, wherein each segment of the image corresponds with a feature set;
- applying an imaging parameter to each segment based on the feature set of each segment, wherein the imaging parameter is configured to enhance each image segment by reducing an amount of noise associated with each segment;
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- adapting each image segment dynamically based on a rate of change for the feature set of each segment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.