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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2010
Applicants:
Kwang Hee Lee, Seoul, KR;
Dong Gyu Hyun, Seoul, KR;
Inventors:
Kwang Hee Lee, Seoul, KR;
Dong Gyu Hyun, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
Samsung Medison Co., Ltd., Gangwon-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
There is disclosed an embodiment for providing a change trend image. An ultrasound data acquisition unit transmits ultrasound signal to a target object and receives echo signal reflected from the target object to sequentially acquire a plurality of ultrasound data. A processor is connected to the ultrasound data acquisition unit. The processor sequentially extracts feature values from the plurality of ultrasound data, allocates colors corresponding to each feature value and forms a change trend image with the colors indicative of a change trend of the extracted feature values over time.