US 12,213,839 B2
Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and method of controlling ultrasound diagnostic apparatus
Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/669,051.
Application 17/669,051 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2020/025859, filed on Jul. 1, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-149054 (JP), filed on Aug. 15, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0160335 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/14 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 8/54 (2013.01) [A61B 8/0841 (2013.01); A61B 8/085 (2013.01); A61B 8/14 (2013.01); A61B 8/4488 (2013.01); A61B 8/461 (2013.01); A61B 8/463 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus comprising:
a transducer array;
a processor; and
a display device,
wherein the processor is configured to:
cause the transducer array to transmit an ultrasound beam toward a subject and receive an ultrasound echo generated inside the subject to acquire an ultrasound image,
display on the display device the acquired ultrasound image,
analyze the acquired ultrasound image to detect a plurality of blood vessels and an insert in the ultrasound image,
specify a distance between each of the detected blood vessels and the insert,
determine whether or not each of the detected blood vessels is at a position reachable by the insert,
specify a closest blood vessel which has the specified distance smaller than a threshold value and is closest to the insert, among the blood vessels determined to be at the position reachable by the insert,
highlight only the closest blood vessel in a second form, and
highlight at least one of the remaining detected blood vessels in a first form different from the second form.