US 11,911,214 B2
System and methods for at home ultrasound imaging
Martin Paul Mienkina, Neumarkt am Wallersee (AT); and Fiona Schwab, Mauerkirchen (AT)
Assigned to GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC, Milwaukee, WI (US)
Filed by GE Precision Healthcare LLC, Milwaukee, WI (US)
Filed on Sep. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/448,501.
Application 17/448,501 is a continuation of application No. 16/802,344, filed on Feb. 26, 2020, abandoned.
Application 16/802,344 is a continuation of application No. 15/611,702, filed on Jun. 1, 2017, abandoned.
Prior Publication US 2022/0000449 A1, Jan. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 8/4427 (2013.01) [A61B 5/4848 (2013.01); A61B 8/4254 (2013.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01); A61B 8/0858 (2013.01); A61B 8/4444 (2013.01); A61B 8/5223 (2013.01); A61B 8/565 (2013.01); A61B 8/582 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for ultrasound imaging of a patient, comprising:
during an initial imaging session,
scanning the patient to acquire initial ultrasound image data;
identifying, in the acquired initial ultrasound image data, a target scan plane including an anatomical feature within the patient; and
storing at least a subset of the acquired initial ultrasound image data as a reference image acquired at the target scan plane; and
during a subsequent imaging session,
instructing the patient to move an ultrasound probe to acquire subsequent ultrasound image data;
automatically identifying, via a first computing device using image recognition trained via machine learning, the target scan plane in the subsequent ultrasound image data acquired by the patient during the subsequent imaging session;
storing, on the first computing device, at least a subset of the subsequent ultrasound image data acquired during the subsequent imaging session or additional ultrasound image data acquired by the patient during the subsequent imaging session after identifying the target scan plane as a subsequent image acquired at the target scan plane; and
sending the subsequent image to a second computing device configured to automatically determine changes to the anatomical feature in the target scan plane by comparing the reference image to the subsequent image.