US 11,839,514 B2
Methods and apparatuses for guiding collection of ultrasound data
Nathan Silberman, Brooklyn, NY (US); and Igor Lovchinsky, New York, NY (US)
Assigned to BFLY OPERATIONS, INC, Burlington, MA (US)
Filed by BFLY Operations, Inc., Guilford, CT (US)
Filed on Aug. 19, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/544,058.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/765,314, filed on Aug. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0054307 A1, Feb. 20, 2020
Int. Cl. G06N 3/02 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 8/5207 (2013.01) [A61B 8/0883 (2013.01); A61B 8/461 (2013.01); A61B 8/565 (2013.01); G06N 3/02 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus, comprising:
a processing device in operative communication with an ultrasound device and configured to:
receive first ultrasound data collected from a subject by the ultrasound device wherein the first ultrasound data includes raw acoustical data collected by an ultrasound transducer and representing scan lines and/or an ultrasound image of an anatomical feature of a patient;
automatically determine, based on the first ultrasound data having been collected by an ultrasound transducer and representing scan lines and/or an ultrasound image, a first anatomical location on the subject from which at least some of the first ultrasound data was collected; and
display a first indication of the first anatomical location, wherein the processing device is configured, to display the first indication, as a marker within a non-ultrasound image or video that was not displayed prior to automatically determining the first anatomical location on the subject from which at least some of the first ultrasound data was collected.