US 11,986,353 B2
Ultrasonic diagnostic device, output method, and recording medium
Norihisa Toh, Okayama (JP); Kousuke Namiki, Otawara (JP); and Koichiro Kurita, Nasushiobara (JP)
Assigned to National University Corporation Okayama University, Okayama (JP); and CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Tochigi (JP)
Filed by National University Corporation Okayama University, Okayama (JP); and CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Tochigi (JP)
Filed on Jun. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/305,106.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-112722 (JP), filed on Jun. 30, 2020; and application No. 2021-108011 (JP), filed on Jun. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2021/0401406 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 8/14 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 8/48 (2013.01) [A61B 8/461 (2013.01); A61B 8/467 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An ultrasonic diagnostic device, comprising:
processing circuitry configured to
execute ultrasonic scanning of a subject to generate ultrasonic image data;
estimate a health state of the subject based on a measurement value measured using the generated ultrasonic image data;
determine, based on the estimated health state of the subject, an additional examination used to diagnose the health state among additional ultrasound examinations executable in various types of ultrasonic imaging modes, each being used in accordance with a corresponding purpose of an examination using the ultrasonic diagnostic device; and
output information indicative of the estimated health state and the determined additional examination.