Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and control method of ultrasound diagnostic apparatus

Abstract

There are provided an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method of the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus which can determine a medical examination category or a diagnosis category of a lesion part and accurately understand the basis of the determination by referring to a plurality of ultrasound images. Characteristics of the lesion part for a determination item for route selection in a plurality of branches of a determination procedure stored in a determination procedure memory are identified on the basis of a plurality of ultrasound images in which the same lesion part is imaged, at least one ultrasound image contributing to identification of the characteristics in the plurality of branches of the determination procedure is extracted from the plurality of ultrasound images as a basis image, the route selection in the plurality of branches of the determination procedure is performed by applying the identified characteristics to the determination item to determine the medical examination category or the diagnosis category of the lesion part, and a route in the determination procedure in a case where the medical examination category or the diagnosis category is determined and the extracted basis image are displayed on the monitor.

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