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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2021
Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc., Bothell, WA (US);
Davinder S. Dhatt, Bothell, WA (US);
Christopher Aleksandr White, Bothell, WA (US);
Adam Benjamin Pely, Bothell, WA (US);
Thomas Michael Duffy, Bothell, WA (US);
Paul Tomotaro Danset, Bothell, WA (US);
Diku Pranav Mandavia, Bothell, WA (US);
FUJIFILM SONOSITE, INC., Bothell, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for identifying blood vessels in ultrasound images and displaying blood vessels in ultrasound images are described. In some embodiments, the method is implemented by a computing device and includes assigning, with a neural network implemented at least partially in hardware of the computing device, one of a vein classification and an artery classification to one or more blood vessels in ultrasound images. The method also includes determining a misclassification for one blood vessel that denotes the neural network assigning the one of the vein classification and the artery classification to the one blood vessel in one ultrasound image and the other of the vein classification and the artery classification to the one blood vessel in additional ultrasound images. The method includes displaying, in the one ultrasound image, an indication of the other of the vein classification and the artery classification for the one blood vessel.