Ultrasound image processing device and method, and computer-readable storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12102484-B2
Application number	US-202117174206-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 11, 2021
Priority date	Aug 24, 2018
Publication date	Oct 1, 2024
Grant date	Oct 1, 2024

Abstract

An ultrasound image processing device and a method for quantitative analysis of cardiac motion are provided. The device comprises: a display; and a processor configured to: obtain an ultrasound presentation, wherein the ultrasound presentation comprises one of an ultrasound image and an ultrasound video; perform a motion tracking on at least one region of interest according to the ultrasound presentation to obtain a tracking result of the at least one region of interest; determine a tracking quality of the tracking result of the at least one region of interest; and control the display to display the tracking quality of the at least one region of interest, wherein the tracking quality is a confidence of the tracking result of the corresponding region of interest and indicates a credibility of the tracking result of the corresponding region of interest.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An ultrasound image processing device for quantitative analysis of cardiac motion, comprising:
a display; and
a processor configured to:
obtain an ultrasound presentation, wherein the ultrasound presentation comprises one of an ultrasound image and an ultrasound video;
perform a motion tracking on at least one region of interest in a myocardial tissue according to the ultrasound presentation to obtain tracking results of a plurality of local sub-regions formed by dividing the at least one region of interest;
determine confidence values of the tracking results of the plurality of local sub-regions of the at least one region of interest as tracking qualities of the tracking results;
control the display to display the confidence values of the tracking results of the plurality of local sub-regions of the at least one region of interest;
generate tracking quality indicators of the plurality of local sub-regions according to the tracking qualities of the tracking results of the plurality of local sub-regions, wherein each of the plurality of local sub-regions has a respective tracking quality indicator;
arrange the tracking quality indicators of the plurality of local sub-regions of the region of interest in an anatomical shape of the region of interest in a form of color coding according to an anatomical structure of the region of interest and the plurality of local sub-regions, wherein each of the plurality of local sub-regions corresponds to a color coded block, and different local sub-regions correspond to color coded blocks with different colors, wherein:
the tracking quality indicator of each local sub-region is represented by a shade of a color of a contour line surrounding the corresponding color coded block, and different shades of the color correspond to different confidence values; or
the tracking quality indicator of each local sub-region is represented by a texture pattern filled in the corresponding color coded block, and different texture patterns correspond to different confidence values; and

control the display to display the tracking quality indicators arranged in the anatomical shape of the region of interest.

2. The ultrasound image processing device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
control the display to display a quality standard reference indicator, wherein the quality standard reference indicator is used for determining the tracking qualities indicated by the tracking quality indicators.

3. The ultrasound image processing device of claim 1 , further comprising an input unit, wherein the processor is further configured to, in response to an action of deleting one or more local sub-regions that is input by a user through the input unit, discard an analysis result, comprising one or more tracking results, of the deleted one or more local sub-regions.

4. The ultrasound image processing device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
generate a prompt message to prompt a user whether to accept the tracking results of the plurality of local sub-regions and control the display to display the prompt message; and
control the display to display an analysis result comprising the tracking results of the plurality of local sub-regions when the user accepts the tracking results.

5. The ultrasound image processing device of claim 1 , wherein the anatomical shape formed by arranging the tracking quality indicators of the plurality of local sub-regions is a shape of a cardiac segmented diagram and/or a shape of a bull's eye plot.

6. The ultrasound image processing device of claim 5 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
in response to selecting a local sub-region of the plurality of local sub-regions of the at least one region of interest by a user, highlight a part of the anatomical shape corresponding to the selected local sub-region.

7. The ultrasound image processing device of claim 1 , wherein each of the tracking results comprises at least a quantitative parameter of myocardial motion.

8. The ultrasound image processing device of claim 1 , further comprising a memory, wherein the processor is configured to obtain, from the memory, the ultrasound presentation that is collected and stored in advance.

9. The ultrasound image processing device of claim 1 , further comprising an ultrasound presentation collecting apparatus configured to collect the ultrasound presentation, wherein the processor is configured to obtain the ultrasound presentation collected by the ultrasound presentation collecting apparatus.

10. The ultrasound image processing device of claim 9 , wherein the ultrasound presentation collecting apparatus comprises:
a probe;
a transmitting circuit configured to excite the probe to transmit an ultrasound wave to the region of interest; and
a receiving circuit configured to receive echoes of the ultrasound wave to obtain echo signals;
wherein the processor is configured to process the echo signals to obtain the ultrasound presentation.

11. The ultrasound image processing device of claim 1 , wherein the at least one region of interest comprises at least one of an endocardium, a midmyocardium and an epicardium.

12. An ultrasound image processing method for quantitative analysis of cardiac motion, comprising:
obtaining an ultrasound presentation, wherein the ultrasound presentation comprises one of an ultrasound image and an ultrasound video;
performing a motion tracking on at least one region of interest in a myocardial tissue according to the ultrasound presentation to obtain tracking results of a plurality of local sub-regions formed by dividing the at least one region of interest;
determining confidence values of the tracking results of the plurality of local sub-regions of the at least one region of interest as tracking qualities of the tracking results; and
displaying the confidence values of the tracking results of the plurality of local sub-regions of the at least one region of interest,
wherein displaying the confidence values of the tracking results of the plurality of local sub-regions of the at least one region of interest comprises:
generating tracking quality indicators of the plurality of local sub-regions according to the tracking qualities of the tracking results of the plurality of local sub-regions, wherein each of the plurality of local sub-regions has a respective tracking quality indicator;
arranging the tracking quality indicators of the plurality of local sub-regions of the region of interest in an anatomical shape of the region of interest in a form of color coding according to an anatomical structure of the region of interest and the plurality of local sub-regions, wherein each of the plurality of local sub-regions corresponds to a color coded block, and different local sub-regions correspond to color coded blocks with different colors, wherein:
the tracking quality indicator of each local sub-region is represented by a shade of a color of a contour line surrounding the corresponding color coded block, and different shades of the color correspond to different confidence values; or
the tracking quality indicator of each local sub-region is represented by a texture pattern filled in the corresponding color coded block, and different texture patterns correspond to different confidence values; and

displaying the tracking quality indicators arranged in the anatomical shape of the region of interest.

13. The ultrasound image processing method of claim 12 , wherein displaying the confidence values of the tracking results of the plurality of local sub-regions of the at least one region of interest further comp

Assignees

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

Inventors

• Wang Bo
• Zhu Lei
• Sui Xiaofeng
• Liu Dejie
• Cong Longfei

Classifications

• A61B8/467

  characterised by special input means · CPC title

• A61B8/463

  characterised by displaying multiple images or images and diagnostic data on one display · CPC title

• A61B8/0883 Primary

  for diagnosis of the heart · CPC title

• A61B8/085

  for locating body or organic structures, e.g. tumours, calculi, blood vessels, nodules · 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