Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Julia Dmitrieva

James Robertson Jago

Gary Cheng-How Ng

Michael R Vion

Allen David Snook

Junzheng Man

Yuechen Qian

Eric Cohen-Solal

Gabriel Ryan Mankovich

Thomas Shu Yin Tang

Jayne Louise Angela Armfield

The present disclosure describes ultrasound imaging systems and methods that may be used to image, for example, breast tissue. An ultrasound imaging system according to one embodiment may include a probe, a sensor attached to the probe and operatively associated with a position tracking system, a processor configured to receive probe position data from the position tracking system. The user interface may be configured to provide instructions for placement of the probe at a plurality of anatomical landmarks of a selected breast of the subject and receive user input to record the spatial location of the probe at each of the plurality of anatomical landmarks. The processor may be configured to determine a scan area based on the spatial location of the probe at each of the plurality of anatomical landmarks and generate a scan pattern for the selected breast. The processor may be further configured to monitor movement of the probe. The user interface may be configured to display, prior to scanning, a visual representation of the scan and automatically update, during scanning, the visual representation of the scan pattern based on movement of the probe.

Ultrasound system and method for breast tissue imaging

The present disclosure describes ultrasound imaging systems and methods that may be used to image breast tissue. An ultrasound imaging system according to one embodiment may include a user interface comprising a display, a processor operatively connected to the user interface, and memory comprising processor-executable instructions, which when executed by the processor cause the user interface to display a first ultrasound image of a breast on the display and receive an indication of a first region of interest (ROI) in the first ultrasound image. The memory may include instructions to further cause the user interface to display a second ultrasound image of the breast on the display and receive an indication of a second region of interest in the second ultrasound image. The processor may be configured to determine locations of the first and second regions of interest based on probe position data associated with the first and second images, respectively and cause the user interface to display a visual indication of a relative distance between the first and second regions of interest if the relative distance is less than or equal to a predetermined amount.

Ultrasound system and method for breast tissue imaging and annotation of breast ultrasound images

A medical imaging system configured to receive first image information corresponding with one or more images acquired at a first time, the one or more images including a lesion; receive second image information corresponding with one or more images of the lesion acquired at another time; render volumes of the lesion for each image; and overlays the two volumes. Other factors and/or indicators, such as vascularization indicators, may be calculated and compared between the first image information and second image information.

System for monitoring lesion size trends and methods of operation thereof

A system includes () includes a display () that sequentially displays images from an image data set at a predetermined rate, an optical attention monitoring device () that senses a characteristic indicative of a clinician's attention to each displayed image of the image data set, and a processor () that executes an attention detection module () that detects a lapse in attention with respect to one or more of the displayed images based on the sensed characteristic indicative of the clinician's attention and generates a signal indicating the one or more of the displayed images.

Evaluating clinician

Systems for monitoring lesion size trends and methods of operation thereof

A data acquisition method performed by one or more controllers includes receiving information related to a sequence of a plurality of images. The method further includes receiving, from an ultrasonic probe, image information corresponding to a current image of the plurality of images in the sequence. The method still further includes determining whether a caliper input has been received, and when it is determined that a caliper input has been received: obtaining coordinate information corresponding to one or more locations in the current image, selecting an other image which is different from, and associated with, the current image, and obtaining one or more coordinates corresponding to one or more locations in the other image. The method further includes saving a report including the image information and the coordinate information corresponding to each image of the plurality of images of the sequence.

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Bothell, WA, United States of America

Julia Dmitrieva