ULTRASOUND ACQUISITION FEEDBACK GUIDANCE TO TARGET VIEW Russian patent published in 2019 - IPC A61B8/08 G06T7/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: group of inventions relates to medical equipment, specifically to the means of matching ultrasound images in order to guide the user to achieve a target view. Device comprises an imaging probe for radiating ultrasound into said subject and for receiving, in response, the current ultrasound view, an image matching module, configured to match a received view with an already existing image, a user assistance module and a database containing images of the organ or vessel of interest and / or surrounding tissue from imaged subjects, wherein the database is a statistical database organised in the form of a state space, wherein the images contained therein are included in the state space and labeled with image attributes that include the observed anatomical structures on the image, image quality and position and orientation of the probe on the surface of the anatomical structure, the image matching module is further configured to estimate the position of said received view in the state space, wherein measurements for each point in the state space match image attributes, and the user assistance module is configured to select based on the current ultrasound view and its position in the state space of the corresponding trajectory in space in the direction of the target view. Device is equipped with a machine-readable medium on which a program is implemented to provide guidance.

EFFECT: use of inventions allows to automate guidance of the user of an ultrasound scanning system to a target view.

9 cl, 6 dwg