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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
May. 07, 2021
The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Jonathan M. Rubin, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
J. Brian Fowlkes, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Oliver D. Kripfgans, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
James D. Hamilton, Marina Del Rey, CA (US);
Christopher Fung, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of estimating lung motion (e.g., local lung motion and local lung ventilation) includes collecting a time series of ultrasound images of a lung surface, the time series including a plurality of frames, identifying a lung surface in one of the plurality of frames, and subsetting each of the plurality of frames into at least one sub-image. The method further includes applying a high pass temporal filter and a spatial filter. The method still further includes calculating inter-frame motion data from complex data sets associated with one or more pairs of temporally successive frames. In a further method, lung surface longitudinal strain is also calculated.