US 12,086,999 B2
Medical image displaying apparatus and method of displaying medical image using the same
Gilju Jin, Seoul (KR); Hyunmin Jang, Seoul (KR); and Junsung Park, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG MEDISON CO. LTD., Gangwon-do (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG MEDISON CO., LTD., Gangwon-do (KR)
Filed on Dec. 18, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/126,557.
Application 17/126,557 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/091,814, filed on Nov. 6, 2020, granted, now 11,571,185.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/932,631, filed on Nov. 8, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0034045 (KR), filed on Mar. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0142493 A1, May 13, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 8/14 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 7/13 (2017.01); G06T 7/33 (2017.01); G06T 7/593 (2017.01)
CPC G06T 7/337 (2017.01) [A61B 8/14 (2013.01); A61B 8/4245 (2013.01); A61B 8/463 (2013.01); A61B 8/466 (2013.01); G06T 7/0014 (2013.01); G06T 7/13 (2017.01); G06T 7/593 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10136 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of displaying a medical image by using a medical image displaying apparatus, the method comprising:
transmitting ultrasound signals to an object and receiving ultrasound echo signals from the object using an ultrasound probe of the medical image displaying apparatus;
obtaining a first ultrasound image based on the ultrasound echo signals;
identifying a first outline of the object included in the first ultrasound image as a feature of the first ultrasound image by applying the first ultrasound image to an artificial intelligence model;
identifying a second outline of the object included in a pre-obtained first medical image using the artificial intelligence model as a feature of the first medical image;
performing image registration between the first ultrasound image and the first medical image by matching the feature of the first ultrasound image and the feature of the first medical image;
obtaining a second ultrasound image of the object using the ultrasound probe;
obtaining a second medical image by transforming the first medical image to correspond to the second ultrasound image; and
displaying the second medical image together with the second ultrasound image,
wherein the obtaining of the second medical image comprises transforming the first medical image based on information of the ultrasound probe,
wherein the information of the ultrasound probe includes position information of the ultrasound probe and information about an outer shape of the ultrasound probe, and
wherein the obtaining of the second medical image comprises transforming, based on the position information of the ultrasound probe and the information about the outer shape of the ultrasound probe, the first medical image such that the object in the first medical image corresponds to the outer shape of the ultrasound probe.