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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2018
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
David Hope Simpson, Bothell, WA (US);
Earl M. Canfield, Snohomish, WA (US);
Robert Gustav Trahms, Edmonds, WA (US);
Vijay Thakur Shamdasani, Kenmore, WA (US);
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
An ultrasound system according to some embodiments may include an ultrasound transducer configured to transmit ultrasound pulses toward tissue and generate echo signals responsive to the ultrasound pulses, a channel memory configured to store the echo signals, a beamformer configured to generated beamformed signals responsive to the echo signals, a neural network configured to receive one or more samples of the echo signals or the beamformed signals and produce a first type of ultrasound imaging data, and a processor configured to generate a second type of ultrasound imaging data, wherein the one or more processors may be further configured to generate an ultrasound image based on the first type of ultrasound imaging data and the second type of ultrasound imaging data and to cause a display communicatively coupled therewith to display the ultrasound image.