US 11,883,241 B2
Medical image diagnostic apparatus, ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, medical imaging system, and imaging control method
Yasuko Fujisawa, Nasushiobara (JP)
Assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara (JP)
Filed by CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara (JP)
Filed on Sep. 25, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/032,208.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-179248 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2019; and application No. 2020-157597 (JP), filed on Sep. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0093303 A1, Apr. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 8/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/55 (2017.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 8/54 (2013.01) [A61B 8/085 (2013.01); A61B 8/4461 (2013.01); A61B 8/463 (2013.01); A61B 8/466 (2013.01); A61B 8/565 (2013.01); G06T 7/55 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10132 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical image diagnostic apparatus comprising:
processing circuitry configured to
sequentially acquire cross sectional medical images of a target of a subject acquired by performing an imaging of the target by scanning with a scanner, and position data of the acquired cross sectional medical images,
automatically determine, based on the acquired cross sectional medical images and the acquired position data, an unimaged region being a part of the target, the unimaged region being included in a data-missing area, which has a size equal to or larger than a threshold, and which appears between adjacent cross sectional medical images of the acquired cross sectional medical images, and
automatically move the scanner such that the unimaged region within the target is scanned when the unimaged region is determined.