| CPC A61B 8/54 (2013.01) [A61B 8/4461 (2013.01); A61B 8/4488 (2013.01); A61B 8/461 (2013.01); A61B 8/469 (2013.01); A61B 8/523 (2013.01)] | 23 Claims |
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1. A method comprising:
acquiring, by an ultrasound probe positioned at a scan position over a region of interest, a scan plane;
determining, by the at least one processor, the scan plane is not a first standard view;
performing, until the first standard view is determined:
automatically adjusting, by the at least one processor, a scan acquisition angle, wherein adjusting the scan acquisition angle comprises at least one of rotating and tilting the scan acquisition angle by a pre-defined amount, and wherein the pre-defined amount is defined prior to the acquiring the scan plane;
acquiring, by the ultrasound probe positioned at the scan position, an additional scan plane at the adjusted scan acquisition angle; and
automatically determining, by the at least one processor, whether the additional scan plane is the first standard view,
wherein the automatically adjusting the scan acquisition angle and the acquiring the additional scan plane is performed iteratively at the scan position until the additional scan plane having the first standard view is automatically determined by the at least one processor; and
presenting, at a display system, the additional scan plane having the first standard view.
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