Guidance assistance device for acquiring an ultrasound image and associated method

Abstract

A guidance assistance device for acquiring ultrasound images, configured to receive in real time ultrasound images acquired by an ultrasound probe connected to the device, and including a first calculator, associated with a first memory, to implement a classifier configured to classify in real time the ultrasound images received and associate with each image a CLASS to generate a quality indicator according to the associated class; a display to display, in real time, the last quality indicator generated; a second calculator, associated with a second memory, and configured to perform the following procedure: determining a relative position of the ultrasound probe relative to a predefined probe target position; the relative position being determined from at least one of the received ultrasound images; and generating and displaying on the display in real-time a position indicator according to the relative position determined.

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