Program, method and device for ultrasonic diagnosis

A method of ultrasonic diagnosis of a state of a detected part that is a detection target in a detected body, comprising:

• assigning an echo intensity to one of a plurality of levels of echo intensities, the echo intensity calculated based on one of echo signals that are caused by ultrasonic signals transmitted from an ultrasonic probe into the detected body, and being an intensity of each of the echo signals that are samples respectively corresponding to positions in an area-of-interest of the detected body, the area-of-interest defined in a depth direction of the detected body and a direction intersecting the depth direction;
• and
• calculating, by targeting two or more of the samples having the echo intensities assigned to the plurality of levels by the assigning the echo intensity to one of the plurality of levels of echo intensities, one or more characteristic amounts indicating a characteristic of the area-of-interest, based on a combination of the echo intensities of the two or more of the samples, the two or more of the samples having a given positional relationship with each other.

A program for ultrasonic diagnosis of a state of a detected part that is a detection target in a detected body, the program causing a computer to execute:

• assigning an echo intensity to one of a plurality of levels of echo intensities, the echo intensity calculated based on one of echo signals that are caused by ultrasonic signals transmitted from an ultrasonic probe into the detected body, and being an intensity of each of the echo signals that are samples respectively corresponding to positions in an area-of-interest of the detected body, the area-of-interest defined in a depth direction of the detected body and a direction intersecting the depth direction;
• and
• calculating, by targeting two or more of the samples having the echo intensities assigned to the plurality of levels by the assigning the echo intensity to one of the plurality of levels of echo intensities, one or more characteristic amounts indicating a characteristic of the area-of-interest, based on a combination of the echo intensities of the two or more of the samples, the two or more of the samples having a given positional relationship with each other.