US 2020/0090327 A1 · PRENATAL ULTRASOUND IMAGING

Abstract

An ultrasound system (100) and operating method (200) are disclosed in which the system is adapted to receive a sequence (15) of 2-D ultrasound image frames (150) of a prenatal entity from an ultrasound probe (14) and, for each image frame in said sequence, control the display device to display the received image frame; attempt to segment the image frame for recognition of an anatomical feature of interest (151) of said prenatal entity in said image frame; and accept the image frame for further processing upon recognition of said feature, said further processing comprising: determine a geometric property of the recognized anatomical feature of interest for each accepted image frame; and control the display device to display the determined geometric properties of the accepted image frames in said sequence with each displayed image frame. Such an operating method may be made available as a computer program product for installation on the ultrasound system.

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Dependent claims

An ultrasound system comprising a processor arrangement and a display device under control of the processor arrangement, wherein the processor arrangement is adapted to:

receive a sequence of 2-D ultrasound image frames of a prenatal entity from an ultrasound probe, said sequence defining a sliding window of 2-D ultrasound image frames along a translation direction across said prenatal entity, and, for each image frame in said sequence:
control the display device to display the received image frame;
attempt to segment the image frame for recognition of an anatomical feature of interest OM-) of said prenatal entity in said image frame;
and
accept the image frame for further processing upon recognition of said feature, said further processing comprising:
determine a geometric property of the recognized anatomical feature of interest for each accepted image frame;
and
control the display device to display the determined geometric properties of the accepted image frames in said sequence with each displayed image frame wherein determination of the geometric property comprises determination of a dimension of the recofnized anatomical feature.

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A method for operating an ultrasound system comprising a processor arrangement and a display device under control of the processor arrangement, wherein the method comprising, with the processor arrangement:

receiving a sequence of 2-D ultrasound image frames of a prenatal entity from an ultrasound probe, said sequence defining a sliding window of 2-D ultrasound image frames along a translation direction across said prenatal entity, and for each image frame in said sequence:
controlling the display device to display the received image frame;
attempting to segment the image frame for recognition of an anatomical feature of interest of said prenatal entity in said image frame;
and
accepting the image frame for further processing upon recognition of said feature, said further processing comprising:
determining a geometric property of the recognized anatomical feature of interest for each accepted image frame;
and
controlling the display device to display the determined geometric properties of the accepted images in said sequence with each displayed image frame, wherein determination of the goemetric property comprises determination of a dimension of the recognized anatomical feature.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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Abstract

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