Automatic ultrasound measurement system and method
AssigneeAgilent Technologies, Inc.
InventorsJoseph E Rock, Carolyn Alexander
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Abstract
An automatic ultrasound measurement system reduces the necessary amount of user interaction by correlating the results of one or more basic ultrasound measurements with a known set of parameters corresponding to the diagnoses of various potential conditions to automatically provide the user with the most probable potential diagnoses and with recommendations for additional measurements relevant to those potential diagnoses.
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A method for operating an ultrasound measurement system, the method comprising the steps of:
- defining a template set of possible diagnoses, said template set comprising at least one template, said at least one template defining the threshold value of at least one ultrasound measurement from a baseline set of ultrasound measurements, said threshold value being indicative of a diagnosis corresponding to that template;
- performing a first ultrasound measurement from the baseline set of ultrasound measurements to obtain a first result;
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- automatically correlating said first result with said template set of possible diagnoses to determine whether any of said possible diagnoses are indicated by said first result.
An ultrasound measurement system comprising:
- means for obtaining ultrasound data corresponding to at least one ultrasound measurement from a baseline set of ultrasound measurements;
- means for accessing a template set of possible diagnoses, said template set comprising at least one template, said at least one template defining the threshold value of at least one ultrasound measurement from the baseline set of ultrasound measurements, said threshold value being indicative of the diagnosis corresponding to that template;
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- means for automatically correlating said ultrasound data with said template set of possible diagnoses to determine whether any of said possible diagnoses are indicated by said ultrasound data.
A computer readable medium having a program for operating an ultrasound measurement system, the program comprising:
- means for obtaining ultrasound data corresponding to at least one ultrasound measurement from a baseline set of ultrasound measurements;
- means for accessing a template set of possible diagnoses, said template set comprising at least one template, said at least one template defining the threshold value of at least one ultrasound measurement from the baseline set of ultrasound measurements, said threshold value being indicative of the diagnosis corresponding to that template;
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- means for automatically correlating said ultrasound data with said template set of possible diagnoses to determine whether any of said possible diagnoses are indicated by said ultrasound data.
An diagnostic system comprising:
- an ultrasound imaging system that scans a patient and outputs measurements of physical characteristics of the patient;
- a database containing a set of templates of possible diagnoses, each template defining a threshold value of at least one baseline measurement, said threshold value being indicative of a diagnosis corresponding to that template;
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- a control program that receives a measurement from the ultrasound imaging system, retrieves templates from the database which have a threshold value listed for the received measurement and cross references the retrieved templates with at least one measurement from the ultrasound imaging system to offer a possible diagnosis.
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