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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2019
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Wouter Marinus Benjamin Luijten, Eindhoven, NL;
Ruud Johannes Gerardus Van Sloun, Eindhoven, NL;
Frederik Jan De Bruijn, Eindhoven, NL;
Harold Agnes Wilhelmus Schmeitz, Eindhoven, NL;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for adaptive beamforming of ultrasound signals, the method comprising the steps of (a) Receiving time-aligned RF signals acquired by multiple ultrasound transducer elements in response to an ultrasound transmission; (b) Determining content-adaptive apodization weights for beamforming the time-aligned RF signals by applying a trained artificial neural network () to the time-aligned RF signals; and (c) Applying the content-adaptive apodization weights to the time-aligned RF signals to calculate a beamformed output signal. The invention also relates to a method for training an artificial neural network () useful in adaptive beamforming of ultrasound signals, and a related computer program and system.