US 11,727,558 B2
Methods and apparatuses for collection and visualization of ultrasound data
Audrey Howell, Brooklyn, NY (US); Matthew de Jonge, Brooklyn, NY (US); Kurt Guenther, Burlington, MA (US); Abraham Neben, Guilford, CT (US); Tomer Gafner, Forest Hills, NY (US); Yang Liu, Hoboken, NJ (US); Nathan Silberman, Brooklyn, NY (US); Cristina Shin, San Francisco, CA (US); and Swaminathan Sankaranarayanan, Guilford, CT (US)
Assigned to BFLY OPERATIONS, INC., Burlington, MA (US)
Filed by BFLY OPERATIONS, INC., Burlington, MA (US)
Filed on Apr. 2, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/838,986.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/828,959, filed on Apr. 3, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0320694 A1, Oct. 8, 2020
Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2022.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); G06T 19/20 (2011.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01)
CPC G06T 7/0012 (2013.01) [A61B 8/085 (2013.01); A61B 8/462 (2013.01); A61B 8/466 (2013.01); A61B 8/483 (2013.01); A61B 8/523 (2013.01); G06T 15/005 (2013.01); G06T 19/20 (2013.01); G06T 2200/24 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10136 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30092 (2013.01); G06T 2219/2016 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a processing device in operative communication with an ultrasound device, the processing device configured to:
display an initial ultrasound image collected by the ultrasound device;
configure the ultrasound device to perform a three-dimensional ultrasound imaging sweep based on the initial ultrasound image collected by the ultrasound device, wherein the three-dimensional ultrasound imaging sweep comprises an elevational sweep of a bladder;
display ultrasound images as the ultrasound images are collected during the three-dimensional ultrasound imaging sweep;
display a cine including ultrasound images that were collected during the three-dimensional ultrasound imaging sweep, wherein at least a subset of the ultrasound images are each displayed in the cine with a respective indicator overlaid thereon, wherein the respective indicator for each ultrasound image in the subset indicates a segmented portion of the ultrasound image, wherein the segmented portion indicates an anatomical structure in the ultrasound image; and
display a three-dimensional visualization based at least on the segmented portions of the subset of the ultrasound images that were collected during the three-dimensional ultrasound imaging sweep, wherein the three-dimensional visualization comprises a three-dimensional visualization of a volume of the bladder depicted in the ultrasound images, and wherein the segmented portions of the ultrasound images comprise interiors of the bladder.