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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2022
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tsuyoshi Matsumoto, Kanagawa, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There are provided an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method for an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus capable of performing an appropriate examination according to a gender of a subject without requiring a user to input the gender of the subject. The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: a bladder extraction unit that extracts a bladder region from an ultrasound image; a gender determination unit that determines a gender of a subject based on a shape of the bladder region in a case where an area of the extracted bladder region is larger than a predetermined area threshold value; and an observation support unit that supports an observation of a next observation site which is determined according to the determined gender of the subject.