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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2019
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Hua Xie, Cambridge, MA (US);
Christine Menking Swisher, San Diego, CA (US);
Claudia Errico, Cambridge, MA (US);
Vijay Thakur Shamdasani, Kenmore, WA (US);
Yinhui Deng, Shanghai, CN;
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The present disclosure describes ultrasound imaging systems and methods for ultrasonically inspecting biological tissue, such as liver and for automatically identifying and acquiring a view suitable for hepatic-renal echo-intensity ratio quantification, using one or more neural networks, which may be trained to perform image classification, segmentation, or a combination thereof to compute a confidence metric and to provide a recommendation for measurement ROIs placement on the image.