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US 2021/0228187 A1Published application
System and methods for contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging
AssigneeGE Precision Healthcare LLC
InventorYelena Viktorovna Tsymbalenko
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Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for automatically characterizing contrast agent microbubbles in contrast-enhanced ultrasound images. In one example, a method includes generating, via a contrast bubble model, a density map of contrast agent microbubbles in a region of interest (ROI) of a contrast-enhanced ultrasound image and displaying the density map on a display device.
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A method, comprising:
- generating, via a contrast bubble model, a density map of contrast agent microbubbles in a region of interest (ROI) of a contrast-enhanced ultrasound image;
- and
- displaying the density map on a display device.
A system, comprising:
- a display device;
- an ultrasound probe;
- a memory storing instructions;
- and
- a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and when executing the instructions, configured to:
- acquire, via the ultrasound probe, a contrast-enhanced image of a region of interest (ROI) of a patient;
- enter the contrast-enhanced image as an input to a contrast bubble model that is trained to output a density map of the ROI based on the contrast-enhanced image, the density map including a density of contrast agent microbubbles in one or more sub-regions of the ROI of the contrast-enhanced image;
- and
- output the density map for display on the display device.
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A method for an ultrasound system, comprising:
- receiving a request to determine a microbubble count of a region of interest (ROI) of a contrast-enhanced ultrasound image;
- upon receiving the request, entering the contrast-enhanced image as an input to a model trained to output a microbubble count based on the contrast-enhanced ultrasound image;
- and
- outputting the microbubble count for display on a display device.
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