Quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion, and ultrasonic system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12004897-B2
Application number	US-202117237868-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 22, 2021
Priority date	Oct 23, 2018
Publication date	Jun 11, 2024
Grant date	Jun 11, 2024

Abstract

A quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion, and an ultrasonic system, said method comprising: emitting an ultrasonic wave to a target heart; receiving an ultrasonic echo returned from the target heart; determining an ultrasonic image of the target heart according to the ultrasonic echo; acquiring an area of interest in the ultrasonic image; and tracking the motion of the area of interest, so as to acquire torsion parameters of the target heart and the confidence of the torsion parameters. The present invention performs quantitative analysis on the torsion motion of the heart, and also provides the confidence of the analysis result, that is, quantitative evaluation is also performed on the analysis result, assisting the physician in making a more accurate cardiac function evaluation.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion, comprising:
transmitting an ultrasonic wave to a target heart;
receiving an ultrasonic echo returned from the target heart;
determining an ultrasound image of the target heart according to the ultrasonic echo;
obtaining a region of interest in the ultrasound image;
performing motion tracking on the region of interest to obtain a torsion parameter of the target heart and a reliability of the torsion parameter, wherein the target heart is divided into multiple preset segments and the torsion parameter comprises rotation parameters of the multiple preset segments; and
displaying the rotation parameters of the multiple preset segments and reliabilities of the rotation parameters of the multiple preset segments.

2. The quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion of claim 1 , further comprising: displaying the ultrasound image and the region of interest.

3. The quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion of claim 1 , wherein performing the motion tracking on the region of interest to obtain the torsion parameter of the target heart comprises:
determining a speckle in the region of interest; and
performing the motion tracking on the speckle to obtain the torsion parameter of the target heart.

4. The quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion of claim 1 , wherein performing the motion tracking on the region of interest to obtain the reliability of the torsion parameter comprises:
determining a speckle in each of the multiple preset segments in the region of interest;
performing the motion tracking on the speckle to obtain an image quality and a tracking result corresponding to the preset segment; and
determining a reliability of the rotation parameter of the preset segment according to the image quality and the tracking result corresponding to the preset segment.

5. The quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion of claim 1 , wherein displaying the rotation parameters of the multiple preset segments comprises:
displaying the rotation parameters of the multiple preset segments in a form of a curve graph, wherein each of the multiple preset segments is identified in the curve graph by at least one of a color, a pattern and a character.

6. The quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion of claim 1 , wherein displaying the reliabilities of the rotation parameters of the multiple preset segments comprises:
displaying a structure icon corresponding to the multiple preset segments, wherein each of the multiple preset segments is identified in the structure icon by at least one of a color, a pattern and a character; and
displaying the reliabilities of the rotation parameters of the multiple preset segments on the structure icon.

7. The quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion of claim 6 , wherein displaying the reliabilities of the rotation parameters of the multiple preset segments on the structure icon comprises:
displaying a reliability of a rotation parameter of each of the multiple preset segments on a boundary of the structure icon corresponding to the multiple preset segments by at least one of a color, a pattern and a character.

8. The quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion of claim 6 , further comprising:
receiving a segment selection instruction for the multiple preset segments corresponding to the structure icon;
determining a selected segment according to the segment selection instruction; and
highlighting the selected segment on the structure icon.

9. The quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion of claim 8 , further comprising: highlighting a rotation parameter of the selected segment on a curve graph.

10. The quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion of claim 8 , further comprising: highlighting the selected segment in the region of interest in the ultrasound image.

11. The quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion of claim 8 , wherein highlighting the selected segment on the structure icon comprises:
highlighting the selected segment on the structure icon in a highlighted manner and/or a bold manner; or
displaying the selected segment and hiding an unselected segment.

12. The quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion of claim 9 , wherein highlighting the rotation parameter of the selected segment on the curve graph comprises:
highlighting a rotation parameter curve of the selected segment in a highlighted manner and/or a bold manner; or
displaying a rotation parameter curve of the selected segment and hiding a rotation parameter curve of an unselected segment.

13. The quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion of claim 10 , wherein highlighting the selected segment in the region of interest in the ultrasound image comprises:
highlighting the selected segment in the region of interest in the ultrasound image in a highlighted manner and/or a bold manner; or
displaying a speckle in the region of interest in the ultrasound image corresponding to the selected segment and hiding a speckle in the region of interest in the ultrasound image corresponding to an unselected segment.

14. The quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion of claim 1 , wherein the torsion parameter comprises a left ventricular torsion parameter, wherein the left ventricular torsion parameter is obtained based on a rotation parameter of a preset segment, and a reliability of the left ventricular torsion parameter is obtained based on a reliability of the rotation parameter of the preset segment.

15. The quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion of claim 14 , wherein displaying the rotation parameters of the multiple preset segments and the reliabilities of the rotation parameters of the multiple preset segments comprises:
displaying the rotation parameters of all of the multiple preset segments and the reliabilities of the rotation parameters of all of the multiple preset segments using curve graphs.

16. The quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion of claim 15 , further comprising:
receiving an invalidation selection instruction for all of the multiple preset segments;
removing a selected invalid segment from all of the multiple preset segments according to the invalidation selection instruction; and
displaying a rotation parameter of a valid segment and a reliability of the rotation parameter of the valid segment using a curve graph, wherein the valid segment is a segment of all of the multiple preset segments excluding the selected invalid segment.

17. The quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion of claim 1 , wherein displaying the rotation parameters of the multiple preset segments and the reliabilities of the rotation parameters of the multiple preset segments comprises:
displaying the rotation parameters of the multiple preset segments and the reliabilities of the rotation parameters of the multiple preset segments with a bull's eye plot.

18. The quantitative analysis method for cardiac motion of claim 17 , further comprising:
displaying, with the bull's eye plot, a peak value of a rotation parameter of each of the multiple preset segments and/or a time for the rotation parameter of the preset segment to reach the peak value.

Assignees

• Shenzhen Mindray Biomedical Electronics Co Ltd
• Shenzhen Mindray Scient Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wang Bo
• Cong Longfei
• Zhu Lei

Classifications

• A61B8/469

  for selection of a region of interest · CPC title

• A61B8/465

  adapted to display user selection data, e.g. icons or menus · CPC title

• A61B8/0833

  involving detecting or locating foreign bodies or organic structures · CPC title

• A61B8/5223

  for extracting a diagnostic or physiological parameter from medical diagnostic data (for algorithms to analyse biomedical images G06T7/0012) · CPC title

• A61B8/02 Primary

  Measuring pulse or heart rate · CPC title