Image classification-dependent user interface in ultrasound imaging
AssigneeSiemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
InventorsIsmayil M. Guracar, Bimba Rao, Cynthia Wolverton
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Abstract
For a classification-dependent user interface in ultrasound imaging with an ultrasound scanner, the ultrasound scanner classifies a view represented in an image. The user interface changes according to the view, allowing one or a few user inputs to be used for different user options or behavior combinations appropriate for the classified anatomy. The context from imaging alters the behavior of a given user input element of the user interface.
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A method for a classification-dependent user interface in ultrasound imaging with an ultrasound scanner, the method comprising:
- scanning a patient with the ultrasound scanner;
- identifying, by the ultrasound scanner, a view represented by an image from the scanning;
- assigning anatomy selection options to a user input element of a user interface, the anatomy selection options assigned based on the identified view;
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- placing a Doppler gate or region of interest for flow imaging in response to user input with the user input element, the user input selecting anatomy using the anatomy selection options as assigned based on the identified view.
A method for a classification-dependent user interface in ultrasound imaging with an ultrasound scanner, the method comprising:
- scanning, by the ultrasound scanner, a cardiac region of a patient;
- identifying, by the ultrasound scanner, a cardiac view of the patient represented by an image from the scanning;
- assigning anatomy selection options of the identified cardiac view to a user input element of a user interface, the anatomy selection options assigned based on the identified cardiac view;
- placing a Doppler gate or region of interest for flow imaging in response to user input with the user input element, the user input selecting anatomy using the anatomy selection options as assigned based on the identified cardiac view;
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- imaging flow at a current selected one of the anatomy selection options with the Doppler gate or color region of interest.
A system for an image classification-dependent user interface in ultrasound imaging, the system comprising:
- an image processor configured to identify a view represented by ultrasound data, alter behavior of a user interface component based on the view identified by the ultrasound data such that identification of a different view provides for different behavior of the same user interface component, and receive selection of anatomy selection option using the interface component with the behavior for the classification;
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- an ultrasound system configured to image based on the selection of an anatomy selection option.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.