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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2021
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiro Imai, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus () includes an ultrasound probe (), an image acquisition unit () that transmits an ultrasound beam toward a subject from the ultrasound probe () to sequentially acquire ultrasound images, a blood vessel detection unit () that detects a blood vessel included in the ultrasound image acquired by the image acquisition unit, a blood vessel discrimination unit () that discriminates whether the blood vessel detected by the blood vessel detection unit is a vein or an artery, and a discrimination execution deciding unit () that decides whether the blood vessel discrimination unit () newly executes discrimination with respect to the ultrasound image of a current frame based on a movement amount of the ultrasound probe or a change amount of the ultrasound image between frames.