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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2017
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Klaus Pintoffl, Oberosterreich, AT;
Daniel Buckton, Oberosterreich, AT;
Christian Perrey, Oberosterreich, AT;
GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An ultrasound probe acquires ultrasound images at different directions, such as by performing beam steering. A processor analyzes the ultrasound images to detect acoustic shadow artifacts. The processor marks the acoustic shadow artifacts detected in one or more regions of one or more of the analyzed ultrasound images. The processor constructs a compound image based on unmarked regions of the analyzed ultrasound images. The processor presents the constructed compound image at a display system. The processor applies an image recognition technique to identify whether a region of an ultrasound image includes a dark area. The processor compares image data of the region corresponding with a same location in each of the ultrasound images and detects the acoustic shadow artifacts in the region having the identified dark area if at least one of the analyzed ultrasound images does not include the dark area at the region corresponding with the same location.