CN109223034B - Ultrasonic imaging method and ultrasonic imaging apparatus - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention provides an ultrasonic imaging method and ultrasonic imaging equipment, and relates to the technical field of ultrasonic diagnosis, wherein the method receives a first operation instruction; responding to a first operation instruction to display at least one section group; receiving a second operation instruction; responding to the second operation instruction, and displaying at least one section guide identifier contained in the target section group; receiving a third operation instruction; in response to the third operation instruction, determining a target tangent plane guide identifier from at least one tangent plane guide identifier contained in the target tangent plane group; receiving a fourth operation instruction; responding to the fourth operation instruction to obtain a target tangent plane image corresponding to the target tangent plane guide identifier. The ultrasonic imaging method and the ultrasonic imaging equipment provided by the invention effectively meet the requirement of rapid classification retrieval of non-sequential workflow and reduce the workload of searching ultrasonic sections. Meanwhile, the error rate is reduced, and the working efficiency of doctors is improved.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of medical images, in particular to an ultrasonic imaging method and ultrasonic imaging equipment.
Background
With the release of various ultrasound examination guidelines and specifications, doctors need to complete the scanning work of a series of sections corresponding to examination items in various ultrasound examinations, and perform subsequent diagnosis based on the scanning results. The ultrasound automated workflow is organized in a certain order or form by providing a template protocol to improve the user's work efficiency and to standardize the user's operational flow. However, the existing section tissue forms usually put all the ultrasonic sections corresponding to the current department together, and doctors can select the section currently used according to own experience. For some departments, the number of ultrasonic sections used may be relatively large, and it is difficult to quickly locate the desired section in a tissue form in which all the ultrasonic sections are placed together. In obstetrics, for example, at least 30, sometimes even 40 to 50 ultrasound slices may be involved in the obstetric examination. The doctor has higher working strength and needs to switch from the sections in turn, and due to the influence of factors such as fetal position and the like, the scanning of all the sections cannot be finished at one time, so that the examination has no method for arranging the sections in sequence, and the probability of missing the section examination is increased.
For the above examination that cannot be sequenced, the ultrasound system cannot help the doctor to start the section to improve the work efficiency due to the lack of a sequence of the workflow, and the doctor needs to jump to different examination parts during examination, and then needs to position the section for many times. In the process of positioning the section, a large amount of time is spent on accurately turning pages to find the corresponding section, so that the working strength of a doctor is increased to a certain extent, and the working efficiency is reduced.
Disclosure of Invention
In view of this, the present invention provides an ultrasound imaging method and an ultrasound imaging apparatus, so as to reduce the working intensity of a doctor and improve the working efficiency of ultrasound examination.
In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides an ultrasound imaging method, which is applied to an ultrasound imaging apparatus, and includes: receiving a first operation instruction; responding to the first operation instruction to display at least one section group, wherein the section group comprises at least one section guide identifier; receiving a second operation instruction; responding to the second operation instruction, and displaying at least one section guide identifier contained in the target section group; the target section group is one of at least one section group; receiving a third operation instruction; in response to the third operation instruction, determining a target tangent plane guide identifier from at least one tangent plane guide identifier contained in the target tangent plane group; receiving a fourth operation instruction; responding to the fourth operation instruction to obtain a target tangent plane image corresponding to the target tangent plane guide identifier.
In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides an ultrasound imaging apparatus, including: the device comprises a probe, a transmitting circuit, a receiving circuit and a processor; wherein the processor performs the steps of: receiving a first operation instruction; responding to the first operation instruction to display at least one section group, wherein the section group comprises at least one section guide identifier; receiving a second operation instruction; responding to the second operation instruction, and displaying at least one section guide identifier contained in the target section group; the target section group is one of at least one section group; receiving a third operation instruction; in response to the third operation instruction, determining a target tangent plane guide identifier from at least one tangent plane guide identifier contained in the target tangent plane group; receiving a fourth operation instruction; responding to the fourth operation instruction to obtain a target tangent plane image corresponding to the target tangent plane guide identifier.
The ultrasonic imaging method and the ultrasonic imaging equipment provided by the embodiment of the invention can display at least one section group for a user to select after receiving the first operation instruction, and display the section guide identifier contained in the target section group after receiving the second operation instruction so that the user can determine the target section guide identifier from the at least one section guide identifier contained in the target section group, thereby obtaining the target section image corresponding to the target section guide identifier, effectively enhancing the intuitiveness of section display, simplifying the operation mode of section positioning, reducing the working intensity of doctors and effectively improving the working efficiency of ultrasonic examination.
Additional features and advantages of the invention will be set forth in the description which follows, and in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention. The objectives and other advantages of the invention will be realized and attained by the structure particularly pointed out in the written description and claims hereof as well as the appended drawings.
In order to make the aforementioned and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention comprehensible, several embodiments accompanied with figures are described in detail below.
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Fig. 1 is a block diagram of an ultrasound imaging apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a flow chart of a method of ultrasound imaging according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 3 is a schematic view of a section guide mark according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a schematic view of another section guide mark provided in the embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 5 is a schematic view of another section guide mark provided in the embodiment of the present invention.
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To make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the accompanying drawings, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are some, but not all embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
When the ultrasonic examination is carried out, a plurality of ultrasonic sections are involved in some departments or some examination items, and in the examination process, the scanning of all the involved ultrasonic standard sections is difficult to be completed at one time according to a set sequence. Taking obstetrical examination as an example, not only needs to perform various examinations on a fetus in the abdomen, but also needs to perform related examinations on a mother, and when screening the fetus in the middle-pregnancy period, at least 30 sections of the skull, the face, the chest, the heart, the abdomen, the spine, the limbs, the appendages, the mother and the like are often needed to be examined, and in some large hospitals, even 40 to 50 sections are examined. Due to the influence of factors such as fetal position, scanning of all sections cannot be completed at one time, the method is an inspection without a method for arranging the sequence, the workflow of the inspection lacks a sequence, and doctors often jump to different inspection parts during the inspection. The existing ultrasonic imaging equipment usually lists all sections in a menu or lays on a certain directory of a touch screen, and doctors spend a lot of time paging and searching every time of switching parts, thereby adding burden to doctors with heavy workload invisibly.
Based on the above situation, the embodiment of the invention provides an ultrasonic imaging method and an ultrasonic imaging device, which are used for meeting the requirement of rapid classification and retrieval of non-sequential workflow, so that a doctor can quickly position a group of required ultrasonic standard sections when using the ultrasonic imaging method and the ultrasonic imaging device. Fig. 1 shows a block diagram of an ultrasound imaging apparatus. As shown in fig. 1, an ultrasound imaging device is identified with 10, which ultrasound imaging device 10 may include a probe 100, transmit circuitry 101, a transmit/receive selection switch 102, receive circuitry 103, beam-forming circuitry 104, a processor 105, a display 106, and a memory 107. The transmit circuit 101 may excite the probe 100 to transmit ultrasound waves to the target object. The receiving circuit 103 may receive an ultrasonic echo returned from the target object through the probe 100, thereby obtaining an ultrasonic echo signal/data. The ultrasonic echo signals/data are subjected to beamforming processing by the beamforming circuit 104, and then sent to the processor 105. The processor 105 processes the ultrasound echo signals/data to obtain an ultrasound image of the target object or an ultrasound image of the interventional object. The ultrasound images obtained by the processor 105 may be stored in the memory 107. These ultrasound images may be displayed on the display 106.
In an embodiment of the present application, the display 106 of the ultrasonic imaging apparatus 10 may be a touch display screen, a liquid crystal display screen, or the like, or may be an independent display apparatus such as a liquid crystal display, a television, or the like, which is independent from the ultrasonic imaging apparatus 10, or may be a display screen on an electronic apparatus such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, or the like.
In one embodiment of the present application, the memory 107 of the ultrasound imaging apparatus 10 can be a flash memory card, a solid-state memory, a hard disk, or the like.
In an embodiment of the present application, a computer-readable storage medium is further provided, where a plurality of program instructions are stored, and when the plurality of program instructions are called by the processor 105 to be executed, some or all of the steps of the ultrasound imaging method in the embodiments of the present application, or any combination of the steps thereof, may be executed.
In one embodiment, the computer readable storage medium may be the memory 107, which may be a non-volatile storage medium such as a flash memory card, solid state memory, hard disk, or the like.
In an embodiment of the present application, the processor 105 of the ultrasound imaging apparatus 10 may be implemented by software, hardware, firmware or a combination thereof, and may use a circuit, a single or multiple Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), a single or multiple general purpose integrated circuits, a single or multiple microprocessors, a single or multiple programmable logic devices, or a combination of the foregoing circuits or devices, or other suitable circuits or devices, so that the processor 105 may perform the corresponding steps of the ultrasound imaging method in the various embodiments of the present application.
Based on the ultrasound imaging apparatus 10 shown in fig. 1, an embodiment of the present invention further provides an ultrasound imaging method, which is applied to the ultrasound imaging apparatus 10, when the ultrasound imaging apparatus 10 operates, a corresponding operation interface may be provided for a user to operate, and the operation interface may include controls corresponding to each slice group, such as an identification selection box or a menu bar, so that the user may input an operation instruction on the operation interface according to an actual use condition, so as to implement ultrasound imaging through the ultrasound imaging apparatus 10. A flow chart of a method of ultrasound imaging as shown in fig. 2, comprising the steps of:
in step S202, the processor 105 of the ultrasound imaging apparatus 10 receives a first operation instruction. The first operation instruction may be a protocol (the protocol may be a corresponding workflow) trigger instruction of the user after the ultrasound imaging apparatus 10 is started, and the protocol trigger instruction may be a trigger instruction of a certain function (for example, a section scanning workflow corresponding to starting obstetrics (early pregnancy, middle pregnancy, or middle and late pregnancy), gynecology, or abdomen, etc.) displayed on a display interface (for example, a touch screen), which is not limited herein.
In step S204, the processor 105 responds to the first operation command to display at least one slice group, where the slice group includes at least one slice guide identifier.
When the processor 105 receives the first operation command, it responds to the command and displays at least one section group through the display 106, and each section group includes at least one section guide mark for the user to select. Fig. 3 shows a schematic diagram of at least one slice group comprised by a mid-late pregnancy slice scan, which includes fetal skull, fetal facial area, fetal heart, fetal abdomen, etc. The at least one section group can be displayed on the man-machine interaction interface in a label page mode. For example, as shown in fig. 4 or fig. 5, the label of the section group of fetal craniocerebral, facial, fetal heart-chest, fetal limb, etc. is displayed. The user can select the corresponding section group by means of keys, knobs or touch. The section group may be in the form of a tab sheet in fig. 4, or may be foldable in fig. 5, and the display mode is not limited herein.
The section guidance mark may be marked by the name and/or the figure of the part or structure associated with the section group, for example, the section group is a right-hand section guidance mark or a left-foot section guidance mark corresponding to the section of the four limbs of the fetus.
In step S206, the processor 105 receives a second operation instruction. It is to be understood that the second operation instruction may be a trigger instruction that the target slice group is activated, and the trigger instruction may indicate that the target slice group is selected. For example, the fetal limb section group shown in fig. 3 is selected, and as shown in fig. 4 or fig. 5, after the fetal limb section group is selected, the human-computer interface displays a plurality of section guide markers (e.g., left hand section, right foot section, right humerus long shaft section, etc.) included in the fetal limb section group.
Step S208, the processor 105 responds to the second operation instruction to display at least one section guide identifier included in the target section group; the target section group is one of the at least one section group.
The manner of generating the second operation instruction may be implemented by clicking, touching, gesturing, voice, dialing a knob, or sliding a trackball, which is not limited herein. In one embodiment, if the currently selected target slice group is not satisfied, the target slice group may be repeatedly selected from the displayed at least one slice group through the above listed operation modes until the slice group meeting the current scanning requirement is selected.
After the processor 105 acquires the second operation instruction, it responds to the second operation instruction, and uses the section group selected by the user as the target section group, and displays at least one section guide identifier included in the target section group through the display 106, so that the user can select the target section guide identifier.
The section guidance mark may also be marked by the name and/or graphic of the part or structure associated with the section, such as the left-hand section or the right-arm section in the fetal limb section group.
In step S210, the processor 105 receives a third operation instruction.
The third operation instruction may be a selection instruction of a specific tangent plane guide identifier input by a user, and the mode of generating the third operation instruction may be realized by clicking, touching, gesturing, speaking, dialing a knob or sliding a trackball to activate the selected target tangent plane guide identifier, which is not limited herein.
In step S212, the processor 105 determines a target tangent plane guide identifier from at least one tangent plane guide identifier included in the target tangent plane group in response to the third operation command.
If the processor 105 receives a third operation instruction, the target slice guide identifier is determined from at least one slice guide identifier included in the target slice group in response to the third operation instruction. For example, the third operation instruction is an instruction generated by the user selecting a right-hand section included in the fetal limb section group, and the processor 105 selects the right-hand section in response to the instruction, where the right-hand section may be displayed on the main screen in a thumbnail form and is displayed in a currently selected state. The selected state may be highlighted or highlighted in color, but the display manner is not limited thereto.
In step S214, the processor 105 receives a fourth operation instruction.
In step S216, the processor 105 responds to the fourth operation instruction to obtain a target tangent plane image corresponding to the target tangent plane guidance identifier.
In practical use, after the user determines the target section guide identifier through the step S212, the user may start the ultrasound image frame selection to complete the scanning workflow of the current section. In view of the fact that a plurality of frames of section images are obtained in the scanning process, the fourth operation instruction may also be an acquisition instruction of the target section image input by the user after the scanning is started, so as to find out a more satisfactory one or more frames of section images corresponding to the target section guide identifier from the plurality of frames of section images as the target section image. For example, the action performed in response to the fourth operation instruction may include selecting one or more slice images from the plurality of slice images and storing the selected slice images. Or may include freezing the image and then selecting one or more slice images from the plurality of slice images and storing the selected slice images. In one embodiment, responding to the fourth operation instruction may further include associating the selected one or more frames of slice images with the currently selected target slice guide identifier.
According to the ultrasonic imaging method provided by the embodiment of the application, the processor 105 can display at least one section group for a user to select after receiving the first operation instruction, and display the section guide identifier contained in the target section group after receiving the second operation instruction, so that the user can determine the target section guide identifier from the at least one section guide identifier contained in the target section group, and further obtain the target section image corresponding to the target section guide identifier, the intuitiveness of section display is effectively enhanced, the operation mode of section positioning is simplified, the working intensity of doctors is reduced, and the working efficiency of ultrasonic examination is effectively improved.
In order to facilitate a user to input an operation instruction, the guide identifier may be provided with a corresponding control, and meanwhile, the section guide identifier may be in a text form, an image form, a text-plus-image form, or the like, as long as each guide identifier can prompt the user which section group or section group the control corresponds to, which embodiment of the present invention does not limit this.
In a specific implementation, the ultrasound imaging apparatus 10 may display the section guidance identifier step by step through the display 106 for the user to select, and the at least one section group is not limited to a certain department, and the user or the doctor may set the grouping rule of the section groups as required. For example, grouping by exam structure, grouping by anatomical location, grouping by image mode, grouping by assessment function, etc., e.g., for obstetrics, partitioning by fetal anatomy; blood vessels-can be divided in upper/lower limb, left/right side; the heart can be divided according to the observed standard section (long axis beside the sternum, short axis beside the sternum, heart apex four-chamber heart, heart apex two-chamber heart, long axis of heart apex, four-chamber heart under xiphoid process, etc.); the abdomen can be divided into different organs such as liver, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen and kidney, and the like, and a plurality of sections can be manually divided, so that the sections can be conveniently searched and scanned, and the use flexibility of the ultrasonic imaging device 10 can be improved.
For ease of understanding, fig. 3 shows a schematic view of a tangent plane guide marker. Taking the middle pregnancy screening process as an example, tens of sections can be displayed step by step according to the grouping rule of preset ultrasound standard sections, each stage can have a sub-menu, as shown in fig. 3, in the middle pregnancy screening, the first-stage menu can include several groups of fetal skull, fetal facial area, fetal heart, fetal abdomen (chest cavity), fetal digestive system, fetal urinary system, fetal spine, fetal limbs, fetal appendages, and mother, and the like, and the sequence from first fetal, then mother, and fetal part is from the first trunk, then the last limb, from the top to the bottom (skull- > facial area- > chest cavity- > spine, upper limb- > lower limb, humerus- > radius- > hand, femur- > fibula- > right foot), to the left (right upper limb, left upper limb, right lower limb, left lower limb, and right lower limb).
Furthermore, the first level menu can also be set with the associated second level menu according to the requirement, for example, the fetal skull is further divided into a thalamus horizontal cross section, a lateral ventricle horizontal cross section and a cerebellum horizontal cross section, and the cross section set in each classification is regarded as a cross section group. And, the control corresponding to the section guidance identification in the primary menu may further include a button for displaying the secondary menu, such as the identification of "+" and "-" shown in fig. 3.
After knowing the grouping rule, the user can quickly locate the required group according to the sequence displayed step by step, and find the required section group, namely the target section group, in the displayed section groups.
In the schematic diagram shown in fig. 3, the section guide identifier is in the form of a character and is displayed step by step according to a corresponding grouping rule, and besides the form of the character shown in fig. 3, the section guide identifier may also be a graphic identifier or a form in which the character and the graphic identifier are set simultaneously; the above control may also include: menu controls and/or icon controls. Generally, the text format displayed step by step shown in fig. 3 is mostly used for the ultrasonic imaging device 10 which does not support the touch screen display, and for the ultrasonic imaging device which can support the touch screen, the ultrasonic standard section guide mark can be a graphic mark, or a text and graphic mark can be simultaneously set.
Fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of another control corresponding to the section guide identifier, in which the section guide identifier is in a form in which text and graphic identifiers are simultaneously arranged. Among them, fig. 4 also includes other controls, such as: "information" means entering patient information; the probe is used for switching to a probe suitable for the current inspection and an inspection mode; "Scan" is used to restart scanning; "browse" for reviewing saved images; the "report" is used to view the measurement results.
The graphical interface shown in fig. 4, which contains text and graphic identification, can be applied to an ultrasound imaging device supporting a touch screen. Meanwhile, in order to facilitate the doctor to operate the ultrasound imaging apparatus, in the graphical interface shown in fig. 4, the graphical interface further includes identifiers of controls for controlling the ultrasound imaging apparatus 10 to scan, such as repeat, redo, insert, delete, previous step, next step, stop, pause, and the like.
In order to facilitate the doctor to screen the slices, in another schematic diagram of the control corresponding to the slice guide identifier shown in fig. 5, the menu bar shown in fig. 3 and the graphical interface shown in fig. 4 are integrated together, and merged for display, and at the same time, the maximum scannable number and the current scanned number and the like can be displayed under each level of menu bar.
In the schematic diagrams shown in fig. 3 to 5, more sections can be reasonably classified, for example, according to anatomical structures, so that grouping is selected first when the sections are retrieved, that is, the range of the retrieved sections is reduced, a user can search the sections needed by the user from fewer sections, page turning operation is avoided, the probability of wrong selection is reduced, and the working efficiency is improved.
In an actual process, the user needs to check the probe of the ultrasound imaging apparatus 10 in addition to select the target tangent plane group or the target tangent plane guide identifier, so as to determine whether the current probe of the ultrasound imaging apparatus 10 supports scanning the selected target tangent plane guide identifier. Therefore, in the above step, before the ultrasound imaging apparatus 10 receives the first operation instruction, the method further includes: the processor 105 determines the probe inspection mode. In general, a display interface for determining the probe examination mode may be displayed on the display 106 of the ultrasound imaging device 10, in which there may be a probe option including the type of the respective probe, for example: the linear array probe is used for scanning the thyroid, carotid, mammary gland, nerve and other parts; the convex array probe is used for scanning the abdomen, the kidney, the fetal heart and other parts of the adult; the phased array probe is used for scanning the heart, abdomen and other parts of an adult.
The user can select the current probe type through the probe option, and then the processor 105 will receive a probe type command triggered by the probe type selected by the user, and determine the current probe examination mode according to the probe type command, wherein the examination parameters corresponding to the probe examination mode are related to the corresponding probe type.
After the probe inspection mode is determined, after the target tangent plane guide identifier is determined from at least one tangent plane guide identifier included in the target tangent plane group in step S212, the method further includes the following steps:
(1) transmitting ultrasonic waves to a target area according to the inspection parameters corresponding to the probe inspection mode;
after the probe inspection mode is determined, the processor 105 triggers the transmitting circuit to transmit ultrasonic waves to the target region according to the inspection parameters corresponding to the probe inspection mode.
(2) Receiving an ultrasonic echo returned from a target region to obtain an ultrasonic echo signal;
the receiving circuit 103 may receive the ultrasonic echo returned from the target region through the probe, thereby obtaining an ultrasonic echo signal/data. The ultrasonic echo signals/data are subjected to beamforming processing by the beamforming circuit 104, and then sent to the processor 105.
(3) The processor 105 obtains a plurality of slice images of the target region from the ultrasound echo signals.
After the processor 105 obtains the multiple slice images of the target area, the target slice image can be automatically determined according to the instruction of the user or according to the target slice guide identifier, and generally, the target slice image is a slice image with a relatively clear content and a relatively large amount of information in the multiple slice images. Taking the automatic determination of the target tangent plane image as an example, the step of obtaining the target tangent plane image corresponding to the target tangent plane guide identifier may include: determining a target section image from a plurality of section images of a target area; and associating the target section image with the target section guide identifier. By the method for determining the target section image, the target section image can be associated with the target section guide mark relatively quickly, and the acquisition efficiency of the section image is improved.
Further, the process of determining the target sectional image from the plurality of sectional images of the target area may include: extracting a characteristic structure of the target tangent plane guide mark; and determining a target tangent plane image with the characteristic matching degree meeting a preset condition from the multiple tangent plane images of the target area according to the characteristic structure of the target tangent plane guide identifier. The structural feature of the target tangent plane guide identifier may be pre-stored, for example, the feature structure may be an image feature parameter of the target tangent plane guide identifier, and when the matching degree between the image feature parameter included in the plurality of tangent plane images in the target region and the image feature parameter of the target tangent plane guide identifier is greater than a preset condition, for example, the matching degree is greater than 90%, the target tangent plane image may be determined.
In view of the fact that when scanning a certain body part, it may need to perform multi-directional scanning, such as lateral scanning or standing scanning, the method further includes the following steps after obtaining the target section image corresponding to the target section guidance identifier:
(1) the processor 105 receives a fifth operation instruction; the fifth operation instruction may be an operation instruction for selecting a corresponding volume bitmap for the target sectional image.
(2) The processor 105 determines a target volume bitmap from the set of ultrasound volume bitmaps in response to the fifth operation instruction;
(3) the processor 105 associates the target volume bitmap with the target slice image.
The above-mentioned way of associating the target body bitmap with the target sectional image can be used for the user to refer to the specific sectional image in a certain target body position.
Considering the situation that the user performs annotation according to the target tangent plane image after acquiring the target tangent plane image, the acquiring of the target tangent plane image corresponding to the target tangent plane guide identifier may further include: receiving annotation information; and associating the annotation information with the target sectional image. The annotation information includes result description information corresponding to the target section image, and the result description information is information such as corresponding description, analysis, or annotation performed by the doctor according to the target section image.
In practical use, when the ultrasound imaging apparatus 10 displays the control corresponding to each section guide identifier step by step, the controls are displayed according to a certain section guide identifier classification rule, such as a conventional classification or sequence of doctors. The classification rule is usually set before scanning, specifically, the classification rule can be uniformly set by referring to the regulations of related organizations, can be set according to different hospitals, and can be set according to specific departments and different working habits of doctors. Therefore, in the ultrasound imaging method shown in fig. 2, before receiving the first operation instruction, the method further includes: the processor 105 classifies the at least one section guide identifier according to a preset classification rule to obtain at least one section group; the preset classification rule may include examining a structure, an anatomical structure, or an image pattern, etc. Specifically, the at least one slice group includes at least one of a skull, a face, a heart, an abdomen, a spine, a limb, and a mother.
For example, in the case of fetal examination, in the sectional group of fetal limbs, the sectional group may be classified into upper limbs (right upper limbs, left upper limbs) > lower limbs (right lower limbs, left lower limbs) in the default arrangement order from top to bottom and from right to left.
Further, for some targeted scanning, the order may also be a sequence customized by a doctor, such as an order from top to bottom (skull- > face- > chest- > abdominal cavity- > spine, upper limb- > lower limb, humerus- > ulna- > hand, femur- > tibiofibula- > foot), from right to left (right upper limb, left upper limb, right lower limb, left lower limb) in a middle pregnancy screening process, and the like. The embodiment of the present invention is not limited to this specific case.
Taking the schematic diagram of the control corresponding to the section guide identifier shown in fig. 4 as an example, assuming that the ultrasound imaging apparatus 10 is an obstetrical ultrasound imaging apparatus, according to the obstetrical examination location, the section groups corresponding to the obstetrical department may be classified, and at this time, the section groups may include a section group corresponding to at least one of the following locations: fetal skull, fetal face, fetal heart, fetal thorax, fetal abdomen, fetal digestive system, fetal urinary system, fetal spine, fetal limbs, fetal appendages, and mother.
In the scanning process, if the target section group is a section group corresponding to the fetal skull, at least one section guide mark corresponding to one of the following parts can be displayed: thalamus, lateral ventricles and cerebellum; if the target section group is a section group corresponding to the limbs of the fetus, the ultrasonic section guide mark corresponding to at least one of the following parts can be displayed: a right upper limb, a left upper limb, a right lower limb, and a left lower limb; if the target section group is a section group corresponding to the heart of the fetus, at least displaying a section guide mark corresponding to one of the following parts: a long axis beside the sternum, a short axis beside the sternum, a heart apex four-chamber heart, a heart apex two-chamber heart, a heart apex long axis and a heart under the xiphoid process four-chamber heart; if the target section group is a section group corresponding to the abdomen of the fetus, at least displaying a section guide mark corresponding to one of the following parts: liver, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen and kidney.
Further, if the section group includes a section group corresponding to the examination part of the fetus and a section group corresponding to the examination part of the mother, a classification rule may be set according to the sequence of the fetus first and the mother, and at least one section guide identifier may be classified.
If the section groups corresponding to the examination parts of the fetus are multiple, the section groups corresponding to the examination parts of the fetus can be sorted according to the sequence of the torso first and the limbs, from top to bottom and from right to left; and displaying the sorted ultrasonic section groups.
For example, suppose a doctor performs a scanning process of a middle pregnancy to perform an ultrasonic scanning on the limbs of a fetus, and after a control corresponding to a section guide identifier corresponding to the limbs of the fetus is selected, the arrangement sequence is further selected and named from top to bottom, so that in a display interface, the section corresponding to the upper limb is displayed first, and then the section guide identifier corresponding to the lower limb is displayed in the sequence from top to bottom. Since the fetal limb is divided into groups including a large number of types of slices, the groups may be arranged in a default order of arrangement, that is, upper limbs (right upper limb, left upper limb) > lower limbs (right lower limb, left lower limb), and the like, from top to bottom and from right to left.
The process of classifying at least one section guide mark according to the preset classification rule can enable the ultrasonic imaging equipment to adapt to different departments, and the operation habits of different doctors in the same department, such as the scanning sequence from the doctor to the foot, when the nose lip coronal section is found to be unsatisfactory in display, the sagittal section in the middle of the face or the orbital sections of both eyes on the touch screen can be clicked to start scanning as the next section. When the section of the cranium and the face of the fetus can obtain the section of an ideal image and is completely scanned, a user is used to scan the section of the heart of the fetus, the heart and the chest of the fetus can be selected to be grouped, and then the section to be inspected is selected from the grouped sections to start scanning, so that the condition that the section is missed when a doctor scans according to the own scanning habit is avoided, and the working efficiency of the doctor is improved.
The ultrasound imaging method and the computer program product of the ultrasound imaging apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present invention include a computer-readable storage medium storing a program code, where instructions included in the program code may be used to execute the method described in the foregoing method embodiments, and specific implementation may refer to the method embodiments, and will not be described herein again.
The functions, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, the technical solution of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium and includes instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to execute all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: a U-disk, a removable hard disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and other various media capable of storing program codes.
Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and "third" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.
Finally, it should be noted that: although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those skilled in the art will understand that the following embodiments are merely illustrative of the present invention, and not restrictive, and the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto: any person skilled in the art can modify or easily conceive the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments or equivalent substitutes for some technical features within the technical scope of the present disclosure; such modifications, changes or substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the embodiments of the present invention, and they should be construed as being included therein. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.
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1. An ultrasonic imaging method, applied to an ultrasonic imaging apparatus, comprising:
receiving a first operation instruction;
responding to the first operation instruction to display at least one section group, wherein the section group comprises at least one section guide identifier, and the at least one section group is obtained by dividing a plurality of sections according to a preset grouping rule;
receiving a second operation instruction;
responding to the second operation instruction, and displaying at least one section guide identifier contained in the target section group; the target section group is one of the at least one section group;
receiving a third operation instruction;
in response to the third operation instruction, determining a target tangent plane guide identifier from at least one tangent plane guide identifier contained in the target tangent plane group;
receiving a fourth operation instruction;
responding to the fourth operation instruction to obtain a target tangent plane image corresponding to the target tangent plane guide identifier.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to receiving the first operation instruction, the method further comprises:
determining a probe inspection mode;
after the target tangent plane guide identifier is determined from at least one tangent plane guide identifier included in the target tangent plane group, the method further includes:
transmitting ultrasonic waves to a target area according to the inspection parameters corresponding to the probe inspection mode;
receiving an ultrasonic echo returned from the target region to obtain an ultrasonic echo signal;
and obtaining a plurality of section images of the target area according to the ultrasonic echo signals.
3. The method of claim 2, wherein the obtaining the target tangent plane image corresponding to the target tangent plane guide identifier comprises:
determining a target section image from a plurality of section images of the target area;
and associating the target tangent plane image with the target tangent plane guide identifier.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein determining a target sectional image from the plurality of sectional images of the target region comprises:
extracting a characteristic structure of the target tangent plane guide mark;
and determining a target tangent plane image with the characteristic matching degree meeting a preset condition from the multiple tangent plane images of the target area according to the characteristic structure of the target tangent plane guide identifier.
5. The method of any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein after obtaining the target tangent plane image corresponding to the target tangent plane guide identifier, the method further comprises:
receiving a fifth operation instruction;
determining a target volume bitmap from the set of ultrasound volume bitmaps in response to the fifth operation instruction;
and associating the target volume bitmap with the target section image.
6. The method of any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein after obtaining the target tangent plane image corresponding to the target tangent plane guide identifier, the method further comprises:
receiving annotation information; the annotation information comprises result description information corresponding to the target tangent plane image;
and associating the annotation information with the target section image.
7. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein before receiving the first operation instruction, the method further comprises:
classifying at least one section guide identifier according to a preset classification rule to obtain at least one section group; the preset classification rule comprises an examination structure, an anatomical structure or an image pattern.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein the at least one cut group comprises at least one of a skull, a face, a heart, an abdomen, a spine, a limb, and a mother.
9. An ultrasound imaging apparatus, comprising:
the device comprises a probe, a transmitting circuit, a receiving circuit and a processor;
wherein the processor performs the steps of:
receiving a first operation instruction;
responding to the first operation instruction to display at least one section group, wherein the section group comprises at least one section guide identifier, and the at least one section group is obtained by dividing a plurality of sections according to a preset grouping rule;
receiving a second operation instruction;
responding to the second operation instruction, and displaying at least one section guide identifier contained in the target section group; the target section group is one of the at least one section group;
receiving a third operation instruction;
in response to the third operation instruction, determining a target tangent plane guide identifier from at least one tangent plane guide identifier contained in the target tangent plane group;
receiving a fourth operation instruction;
responding to the fourth operation instruction to obtain a target tangent plane image corresponding to the target tangent plane guide identifier.
10. The ultrasound imaging apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processor further performs the steps of:
determining a probe inspection mode;
the transmitting circuit stimulates the probe to transmit ultrasonic waves to a target area according to the inspection parameters corresponding to the probe inspection mode;
the receiving circuit controls the probe to receive the ultrasonic echo returned from the target area so as to obtain an ultrasonic echo signal;
and the processor obtains a plurality of section images of the target area according to the ultrasonic echo signals.
11. The ultrasound imaging device of claim 10, wherein the processor obtaining the target slice image corresponding to the target slice guide identifier comprises:
the processor determines a target section image from a plurality of section images of the target area;
the processor associates the target tangent plane image with the target tangent plane guide identifier.
12. The ultrasound imaging device of claim 11, wherein the processor determines a target sectional image from the plurality of sectional images of the target region comprises:
the processor extracts a characteristic structure of the target tangent plane guide mark;
and the processor determines a target tangent plane image with the characteristic matching degree meeting a preset condition from the multiple tangent plane images of the target area according to the characteristic structure of the target tangent plane guide identifier.
13. The ultrasound imaging device of any of claims 9 to 12, wherein the processor further performs the steps of:
receiving a fifth operation instruction;
determining a target volume bitmap from the set of ultrasound volume bitmaps in response to the fifth operation instruction;
and associating the target volume bitmap with the target section image.
14. The ultrasound imaging device of any of claims 9 to 12, wherein the processor further performs the steps of:
receiving annotation information; the annotation information comprises result description information corresponding to the target tangent plane image;
and associating the annotation information with the target section image.
15. The ultrasound imaging device of any of claims 9 to 12, wherein the processor further performs the steps of:
classifying at least one section guide identifier according to a preset classification rule to obtain at least one section group; the preset classification rule comprises an examination structure, an anatomical structure or an image pattern.
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