US 12,279,906 B2
Methods and systems for determining complementary ultrasound views
Cybèle Ciofolo-Veit, Meudon (FR); Thierry Lefevre, Suresnes (FR); Caroline Denise Francoise Raynaud, Paris (FR); and Laurence Rouet, Paris (FR)
Assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 17/282,899
Filed by KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Sep. 29, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/076337
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 5, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/074291, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 18290115 (EP), filed on Oct. 8, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0345987 A1, Nov. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 8/085 (2013.01) [A61B 8/0866 (2013.01); A61B 8/463 (2013.01); A61B 8/466 (2013.01); A61B 8/5223 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented ultrasound imaging method, the method comprising:
obtaining a first ultrasound image comprising a first region of interest of a subject with an ultrasound probe of an ultrasound system;
analyzing one or more features of the first ultrasound image;
identifying an anomalous feature of the first region of interest based on the analysis of the one of more features;
automatically generating a list of possible complementary ultrasound views of the subject, wherein the list of possible complementary ultrasound views of the subject are additional views of interest related to the identified anomalous feature, wherein the list of possible complementary ultrasound views is selected based on at least one of:
the identified anomalous feature; or
a condition correlated with the identified anomalous feature;
obtaining one or more previously acquired ultrasound images stored in the ultrasound imaging system;
automatically selecting a subset of the one or more previously acquired ultrasound images, wherein the subset of previously acquired ultrasound images corresponds to one or more possible complementary ultrasound views from the list; and
displaying, on a display of the ultrasound imaging system, the subset of previously acquired ultrasound images to a user.