CN111265246A - Ultrasonic color imaging processing method and device - Google Patents
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Abstract
The disclosure relates to the technical field of ultrasonic imaging, and particularly provides an ultrasonic color imaging processing method and device. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring color echo signals, and acquiring color characteristic data of each sampling position according to the color echo signals; performing DSC digital scanning conversion according to the color characteristic data to obtain color image data of each pixel point of the image display area; determining data of pixel points meeting a preset threshold condition as blood flow data, wherein the preset threshold condition is determined according to the color image data; and obtaining blood flow velocity data of corresponding pixel points according to the blood flow data, and carrying out color coding imaging on the image according to the blood flow velocity data. According to the method, DSC conversion is carried out on all color characteristic data parameters of the sampling position, threshold judgment is carried out according to the parameters after space conversion, the speed estimation matrix is refined from the sampling position to the pixel point, threshold judgment is more comprehensive and accurate, and imaging accuracy is higher.
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Technical Field
The disclosure relates to the technical field of ultrasonic imaging, in particular to an ultrasonic color imaging processing method and device.
Background
Ultrasonic imaging has become one of the most widely used medical devices in clinical practice because of its advantages such as non-invasiveness, real-time performance, and convenient operation, and color doppler imaging is more significant for ultrasonic imaging. The color Doppler imaging superimposes color blood flow on a black-and-white image, has a two-dimensional ultrasonic structural image, provides dynamic information of the blood flow, and has a great effect on diagnosis of vascular diseases.
In ultrasound imaging, the moving medium on which the imaging effective information depends is blood flow, but other movements than blood flow may also produce doppler phenomena, such as tissue movement and the like. Due to the influence of factors such as respiration, scattering, electronic components and the like, echo signals received by the actual transducer contain various data, such as common noise, blood flow movement, non-blood flow movement and the like. And common noise and non-blood flow motion are noise which is not needed for imaging, so that the filtering of the common noise and the non-blood flow motion, and the maximum representation of the blood flow motion are the key points of color signal processing.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to improve the accuracy of ultrasonic color imaging, the disclosure provides an ultrasonic color imaging processing method and device.
In a first aspect, the present disclosure provides an ultrasound color imaging processing method, including:
acquiring color echo signals, and acquiring color characteristic data of each sampling position according to the color echo signals;
performing DSC digital scanning conversion according to the color characteristic data to obtain color image data of each pixel point of the image display area;
determining data of pixel points meeting a preset threshold condition as blood flow data, wherein the preset threshold condition is determined according to the color image data;
and obtaining blood flow velocity data of corresponding pixel points according to the blood flow data, and carrying out color coding and display on the image according to the blood flow velocity data.
In some embodiments, the determining that the data of the pixel points satisfying the preset threshold condition is blood flow data includes:
dividing an image display area into a plurality of sub-areas, wherein each sub-area comprises a plurality of pixel points;
according to the color image data of the pixel points in the sub-area, calculating to obtain the color image data of the sub-area;
determining the sub-area meeting the preset threshold condition as a color area;
and determining the data of the pixel points meeting the preset threshold condition as blood flow data according to the color image data of each pixel point in the color area.
In some embodiments, the method further comprises:
acquiring black and white echo signals, and processing the black and white echo signals to obtain black and white characteristic data of each sampling position;
performing DSC digital scanning conversion according to the black-and-white characteristic data to obtain black-and-white image data of each pixel point of an image display area, wherein the black-and-white image data comprises gray values;
dividing an image display area into a plurality of sub-areas, wherein each sub-area comprises a plurality of pixel points;
calculating black-and-white image data of the sub-region according to the black-and-white image data of the pixel points in the sub-region;
determining the sub-area meeting the preset threshold condition as a color area; the preset threshold condition is determined according to the color image data and the black and white image data;
and determining the data meeting the preset threshold condition as blood flow data according to the color image data and the black and white image data of each pixel point in the color area.
In some embodiments, before the obtaining the color feature data of each sampling position according to the color echo signals, the method further includes:
performing wall filtering processing on the color echo signals;
the color image data comprises a first energy value before wall filtering of each pixel point, a second energy value after wall filtering of each pixel point and a variance value.
In some embodiments, the preset threshold condition comprises:
the first energy value is less than or equal to a first preset energy threshold;
the ratio of the first energy value to the second energy value is less than or equal to a preset energy ratio threshold;
the second energy value is greater than or equal to a second preset energy threshold;
the variance value is less than or equal to a preset variance threshold;
the gray value is less than or equal to a preset gray value;
the determining that the data of the pixel points meeting the preset threshold condition is blood flow data includes:
and when the data of the pixel point meets all conditions, determining that the data of the pixel point meets the preset threshold condition.
In some embodiments, the obtaining color feature data for each sampling location from the color echo signals includes:
performing autocorrelation processing on the color echo signals after wall filtering processing to obtain the characteristic intermediate parameters of each sampling position;
obtaining the first energy value for each sample position before wall filtering; the color feature data includes the feature intermediate parameters and the first energy value for each sampling position before the wall filtering.
In some embodiments, the performing DSC digital scan conversion according to the color feature data to obtain color image data of each pixel point of an image display area includes:
and calculating to obtain a second energy value and a variance value of each pixel point according to the characteristic intermediate parameters after DSC digital scanning conversion.
In some embodiments, after said color-coded imaging of an image from said blood flow velocity data, further comprising:
acquiring blood flow velocity data of a previous frame image of a current frame image;
judging whether the difference value of the blood flow speed data of the current frame image and the blood flow speed data of the previous frame image is larger than a first preset threshold value or not;
if not, time correlation processing is carried out on the current frame image.
In a second aspect, the present disclosure provides an ultrasound color imaging processing apparatus comprising:
the acquisition module is used for acquiring color echo signals and acquiring color characteristic data of each sampling position according to the color echo signals;
the space transformation module is used for carrying out DSC digital scanning transformation according to the color characteristic data to obtain color image data of each pixel point of the image display area;
the determining module is used for determining the data of the pixel points meeting a preset threshold condition as blood flow data, wherein the preset threshold condition is determined according to the color image data;
and the coding module is used for obtaining blood flow velocity data of corresponding pixel points according to the blood flow data and carrying out color coding imaging on the image according to the blood flow velocity data.
In some embodiments, the determining module is specifically configured to:
dividing an image display area into a plurality of sub-areas, wherein each sub-area comprises a plurality of pixel points;
according to the color image data of the pixel points in the sub-area, calculating to obtain the color image data of the sub-area;
determining the sub-area meeting the preset threshold condition as a color area;
and determining the data of the pixel points meeting the preset threshold condition as blood flow data according to the color image data of each pixel point in the color area.
In some embodiments, the obtaining module is further configured to obtain a black-and-white echo signal, and process the black-and-white echo signal to obtain black-and-white feature data of each sampling location;
the space transformation module is further used for carrying out DSC digital scanning transformation according to the black-and-white characteristic data to obtain black-and-white image data of each pixel point of an image display area, and the black-and-white image data comprises a gray value;
the determining module is further configured to divide the image display area into a plurality of sub-areas, where each sub-area includes a plurality of pixel points;
calculating black-and-white image data of the sub-region according to the black-and-white image data of the pixel points in the sub-region;
determining the sub-area meeting the preset threshold condition as a color area; the preset threshold condition is determined according to the color image data and the black and white image data;
and determining the data meeting the preset threshold condition as blood flow data according to the color image data and the black and white image data of each pixel point in the color area.
In some embodiments, the apparatus further comprises:
the wall filtering module is used for carrying out wall filtering processing on the color echo signals; the color image data comprises a first energy value before wall filtering of each pixel point, a second energy value after wall filtering of each pixel point and a variance value;
the autocorrelation module is used for performing autocorrelation processing on the color echo signals after wall filtering processing to obtain the characteristic intermediate parameters of each sampling position; the color feature data includes the feature intermediate parameters and the first energy value for each sampling position before the wall filtering.
In a third aspect, the present disclosure provides an ultrasonic color imaging apparatus comprising:
a processor; and
a memory communicatively coupled to the processor and storing computer readable instructions executable by the processor, the processor performing the method according to any of the embodiments of the first aspect when the computer readable instructions are read.
In a fourth aspect, the present disclosure provides a storage medium storing computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to perform the method according to any one of the embodiments of the first aspect.
The ultrasonic color imaging processing method in the embodiment of the disclosure comprises the steps of obtaining color echo signals, obtaining color feature data of each sampling position according to the color echo signals, inputting the color feature data into a DSC for conversion to obtain color image data of each pixel point, then performing threshold judgment on the color image data of each pixel point, and determining data meeting a preset threshold condition as blood flow data, thereby removing data interference representing tissue motion or noise and improving imaging accuracy. And obtaining the blood flow velocity estimation value of the corresponding pixel point according to the screened blood flow data, and further carrying out color coding and display to obtain the ultrasonic Doppler image. According to the method, DSC conversion is performed on all color characteristic data parameters of the sampling position, threshold judgment is performed according to the parameters after space conversion, the speed estimation matrix is refined from the sampling position to pixel points, the threshold judgment is more comprehensive and accurate, and the noise removal effect is better.
In the ultrasonic color imaging processing method in the embodiment of the disclosure, when the threshold is determined, the image display area is firstly divided into a plurality of sub-areas, each sub-area includes a plurality of pixel points, then data representing the sub-area is obtained by calculation according to the color image data of all the pixel points in the sub-area, then the threshold is determined according to the data of the sub-area, and the sub-area meeting the preset threshold condition is determined to be a color area, so that the noise of non-blood flow can be roughly screened out. And then, for the color area, the threshold judgment of pixel points one by one is carried out on the area to obtain more accurate blood flow data, and meanwhile, the calculated amount is greatly reduced by dividing the area and combining the judgment of pixel points one by one.
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Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of color signal processing in the prior art.
Fig. 2 is a flow chart of an ultrasound color imaging processing method in some embodiments according to the present disclosure.
FIG. 3 is a flow chart of an ultrasound color imaging processing method according to further embodiments of the present disclosure.
FIG. 4 is a flow chart of a method of ultrasound color imaging processing in accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure.
Fig. 5 is a block diagram of an ultrasound color imaging processing apparatus according to some embodiments of the present disclosure.
FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a computer system suitable for use in practicing the disclosed methods.
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The technical solutions of the present disclosure will be described clearly and completely with reference to the accompanying drawings, and it is to be understood that the described embodiments are only some embodiments of the present disclosure, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by one of ordinary skill in the art from the embodiments disclosed herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present disclosure. In addition, technical features involved in different embodiments of the present disclosure described below may be combined with each other as long as they do not conflict with each other.
The ultrasonic color Doppler imaging is to superpose color blood flow on a black-and-white image, wherein black-and-white signals can be imaged according to the intensity of reflection signals at different depths of tissues, the higher the intensity of the reflection signals is, the larger the gray value of the image is, and otherwise, the smaller the gray value of the image is. The color image signal calculates the frequency shift of the ultrasonic signal caused by the Doppler effect, if the medium moves towards the transducer, the echo frequency will be increased, if the medium moves away from the transducer, the echo frequency will be decreased, and the blood flow velocity is obtained by the frequency shift and is represented by different colors (such as red and blue) and shades, so as to obtain a real-time color blood flow image. And fusing the color blood flow image and the black and white image together for display to form a color Doppler image.
In the prior art, when the ultrasound imaging system performs color signal processing, the processing flow may be as shown in fig. 1, for example. The color echo signals enter an autocorrelation module after being processed by demodulation, wall filtering and the like, the autocorrelation module obtains three intermediate parameters A, B, C of the color characteristics of the sampling position through autocorrelation operation, and the parameters such as the speed, the energy or the variance of the sampling position can be calculated according to the intermediate parameters A, B, C. The threshold judgment module is used for carrying out threshold judgment on the data of the sampling position, the data of the sampling point meeting the threshold condition can be identified as blood flow data, the data of the sampling point not meeting the threshold condition represents noise, and the noise such as tissue motion and the like can be removed through the threshold judgment. Calculating according to the screened blood flow data to obtain blood flow velocity data of the sampling position, performing two-dimensional smoothing processing, entering a DSC (Digital scanning Converter) for space conversion, converting the sampling point data into pixel point data of an image display area, and finally performing frame averaging processing, color coding and the like to obtain a color image for display.
In the scheme in the prior art, the threshold judgment module performs screening, denoising and speed estimation according to the color characteristic value of the sampling point, and because the sampling point data amount is small and the fineness is low, the accuracy of screening and denoising the noise is poor, and after the obtained blood flow velocity data of the sampling point enters DSC transformation, the data accuracy of each pixel point in the display area is further reduced, so that the imaging accuracy is low.
Based on the above-mentioned defects in the prior art, the present disclosure provides an ultrasound color imaging processing method, so as to improve the accuracy of ultrasound color imaging. A method in accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure is illustrated in fig. 2.
As shown in fig. 2, in some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an ultrasound color imaging processing method comprising:
s201, acquiring color echo signals, and acquiring color characteristic data of each sampling position according to the color echo signals.
Specifically, in COLOR ultrasound imaging, the received digital signals of each channel may be subjected to a beamformer, filtering, quadrature demodulation, and the like, and finally a complex signal including a black-and-white echo signal (BW) and a COLOR echo signal (COLOR) is obtained. After the color echo signals are acquired, color feature data of each sampling position can be obtained through calculation according to the color echo signals.
For example, in one embodiment, three characteristic intermediate parameters A, B, C for each sampling location may be derived by an autocorrelation algorithm, which are used to calculate the velocity values, energy values, and variance values of the sampling points, as described in more detail below. The characteristic intermediate parameter is the color characteristic data as the sampling position.
In some embodiments, before performing the autocorrelation operation on the color echo signals, the signals may be first subjected to a wall filtering process, so that most of the low-frequency tissue signals can be filtered out, and the interference can be reduced.
S202, DSC digital scanning conversion is carried out according to the color characteristic data, and color image data of each pixel point of the image display area is obtained.
Specifically, the DSC (Digital Scan Converter) may convert the data of the sampling position into data values of the entire display area through coordinate conversion and interpolation according to the size and shape of the display area. The data processing process of the DSC refers to the DSC operating principle in the related art, and the DSC is not improved in the present disclosure, and is not described in detail herein.
And carrying out DSC digital scanning conversion on the color characteristic data of each sampling position to obtain color image data of each pixel point of the whole image display area. The color feature data may include one or more of feature intermediate parameters, black and white feature data, wall filtering initial energy, and the like, and the color image data corresponding to each pixel point of the image is obtained by calculation after DSC conversion of the data, such as an energy value, a variance value, a black and white gray value, an initial energy value, and the like of each pixel point.
In an exemplary embodiment, the color feature data includes the feature intermediate parameter A, B, C of each sampling position, which is subjected to DSC transform, and the energy value and the variance value of each pixel point are calculated according to the feature intermediate parameter A, B, C, and the energy value and the variance value of each pixel point are the color image data of the point.
S203, determining the data of the pixel points meeting the preset threshold condition as blood flow data, wherein the preset threshold condition is determined according to the color image data.
Specifically, in step S202, color image data for each pixel in the display region is calculated, and it is necessary to screen out data representing blood flow motion by removing noise data such as tissue motion from these data.
First, a preset threshold condition is determined according to color image data, and the condition is used as a judgment condition for judging the threshold of the data, for example: confirming that the energy value after wall filtering is smaller than a preset threshold value, namely confirming that the noise data does not belong to blood flow movement, and then confirming that the preset threshold value condition is that the energy value is larger than or equal to the preset energy threshold value; for another example: the larger the variance value of the pixel point is, the stronger the randomness of the representative signal is, and the more likely the representative signal is noise, the condition that the variance value is smaller than or equal to the preset variance threshold value can be determined as the preset threshold value. It is to be understood that the determination of the preset threshold condition can be based on various parameters and combinations thereof, and is not limited to the above examples, and will be described in detail hereinafter, which is not detailed herein.
According to the determined preset threshold condition, threshold judgment can be carried out on data of each pixel point in the display area, the preset threshold condition is met, the data are represented as blood flow data, the corresponding points are color areas, and on the contrary, the corresponding points are noise data, and removal is carried out.
And S204, obtaining blood flow velocity data of corresponding pixel points according to the blood flow data, and carrying out color coding imaging on the image according to the blood flow velocity data.
Specifically, in step S203, the noise data is subjected to threshold value determination and filtered, and for the pixel points determined to be blood flow motion, blood flow velocity data indicating an estimated value of the velocity of the blood flow motion at the position is calculated from the blood flow data at the pixel points. And carrying out color coding imaging on the image according to the blood flow velocity data, and further superposing the image on a black-and-white image for displaying.
In view of the above, in the ultrasound color imaging processing method in some embodiments of the present disclosure, the color feature data of the sampling point is input to the DSC to perform spatial transformation, so as to obtain the color image data of each pixel point. And then carry out threshold value judgement according to the color image data of pixel, rather than carrying out threshold value judgement according to the color characteristic data of sampling point, the blood flow velocity estimation matrix is the pixel by sampling position is meticulous, and threshold value judgement is more comprehensive meticulous, and the noise removal effect is better.
In some embodiments, as can be seen from the foregoing, the present disclosure refines the threshold into the pixel point data of the display area, greatly improves the denoising effect, and correspondingly increases the computation amount for threshold analysis and calculation. In order to reduce the amount of computation of data analysis processing while improving the imaging accuracy, as shown in fig. 3, in step S203, the disclosed method includes:
s301, dividing the image display area into a plurality of sub-areas, wherein each sub-area comprises a plurality of pixel points.
Specifically, the display area is firstly divided into a plurality of sub-areas, and the division of the sub-areas may be determined according to the size and shape of the display area, for example, in one embodiment, each sub-area is a pixel area of 6 × 6, that is, each sub-area contains 36 pixel points in total. It is understood that, for the division of the sub-area, one skilled in the art can select the sub-area according to the size, shape, operation precision, etc. of the specific display area, and the above-mentioned exemplary embodiments do not limit the present disclosure.
S302, according to the color image data of the pixel points in the sub-area, the color image data of the sub-area is obtained through calculation.
And calculating color image data representing the sub-region data according to the color image data of the pixel points in each sub-region.
In an exemplary embodiment, the average value of the color image data of all the pixels in the sub-region may be used as the color image data of the sub-region. For example, the energy average and variance average of all pixel points in the sub-region are calculated, and the average represents the energy value and variance value of the sub-region.
And S303, determining the sub-area meeting the preset threshold condition as a color area.
Specifically, the method in step S203 may be referred to determine the preset threshold condition, which is not described herein again. And judging the threshold of each sub-area according to a preset threshold condition, and when the preset threshold condition is met, indicating that the sub-area contains color, namely determining that the sub-area is a color area. On the contrary, if the condition is not satisfied with the preset threshold, it indicates that no color is contained in the sub-region, and the color value is 0.
By carrying out threshold judgment on the divided sub-regions, the noise of the non-blood flow region can be quickly removed, and the sub-region containing blood flow, namely the color region, is obtained.
S304, according to the color image data of each pixel point in the color area, determining the data of the pixel points meeting the preset threshold condition as blood flow data.
For the color region obtained after the screening, the pixel points in the region are subjected to threshold judgment one by one, and the judgment process is only referred to the step S203, which is not described herein again. And removing the noise data which do not meet the preset threshold condition in the color area, thereby obtaining accurate blood flow data.
In the embodiment, the threshold value judgment is carried out by dividing the region and combining the pixel points one by one, so that the imaging precision is improved, and the calculation amount of data analysis and calculation is greatly reduced.
Fig. 4 shows an ultrasound color imaging method in an embodiment of the present disclosure, and the ultrasound color imaging method of the present disclosure is specifically described in conjunction with the embodiment of fig. 4. As shown in fig. 4, in the present embodiment, the method of the present disclosure includes:
and S01, beam combination line data. For example, the ultrasonic probe receives digital echo signals of respective channels, and synthesizes line data by using a beamformer.
S02, the data synthesized by the beamformer is subjected to, for example, dynamic filtering and quadrature demodulation to obtain a complex signal including a black-and-white echo signal (BW) and a COLOR echo signal (COLOR).
And S03, processing the black-and-white echo signal (BW) to obtain black-and-white characteristic data of each sampling position.
In this embodiment, the black-and-white echo signal enters the black-and-white signal processing module to be processed, and then undergoes envelope detection, compression conversion and spatial preprocessing in sequence to obtain black-and-white feature data at each sampling position, where the black-and-white feature data includes, for example, a black-and-white gray scale value. The black and white signal processing can be realized by the method in the related art, and the details of the disclosure are not repeated.
And S04, performing wall filtering processing on the color echo signals, filtering most low-frequency tissue signals, and reducing signal interference.
S05, obtaining a first energy value for each sample position before wall filtering. The first energy value represents the pre-filter energy D for each sample position in the color echo signal.
And S06, performing autocorrelation processing on the color echo signals after wall filtering processing to obtain characteristic intermediate parameters of each sampling position.
Specifically, let the number of repeated transmissions per scanning process be N, if I is usedi,j,kAnd Qi,j,kRespectively representing the spatial sampling sequence values of the orthogonal signal after the K-time emission of the jth sampling point on the ith scanning line in the scanning plane after the orthogonal demodulation, and then the initial energy value D of the sampling positioni,jThe expression of (a) is as follows:
if with Xi,j,kAnd Yi,j,kRespectively representing the values of the sampling sequence after wall filtering, and let Ai,jAnd Bi,jRepresenting the real and imaginary parts, respectively, of their estimated autocorrelation function by Ci,jRepresenting an estimate of power, the expression is:
through the above autocorrelation operation, three characteristic intermediate parameters A, B, C for each sampling position are obtained, and the characteristic intermediate parameters are used to calculate the speed value, the energy value, and the variance value of the sampling point, and the calculation method is described in detail below.
And S07, performing two-dimensional smoothing processing on the characteristic intermediate parameter and the first energy value. The two-dimensional smoothing carries out some related smoothing processing on the data in the scanning line direction, and the data precision is improved.
And S08, carrying out DSC digital scanning transformation according to the characteristic intermediate parameter, the first energy value and the black-and-white image data to obtain the full characteristic parameter of each pixel point of the image display area.
Specifically, the DSC can convert the data of the sampling position into data values of the entire display area through coordinate conversion and interpolation according to the size and shape of the display area. In this embodiment, spatial transformation is performed in combination with the characteristic intermediate parameter (A, B, C), the first energy value D, and the black-and-white image data to obtain a full characteristic parameter of each pixel in the display area, including the first energy value, the black-and-white image data, and the characteristic intermediate parameter of each pixel.
And S09, determining the data of the pixel points meeting the preset threshold condition as blood flow data.
Specifically, in the present embodiment, the data threshold determination may be divided into three parts:
1. and calculating the pixel point parameters one by one.
In this embodiment, the velocity value V, the variance value σ, and the power value P of each pixel are calculated according to the characteristic intermediate parameter A, B, C, where the power value P represents the second energy value after the wall filtering of the pixel. The specific calculation formula is as follows:
Vi,j＝Farctan(-Bi,j/Ai,j)
Pi,j＝Ci,j
wherein T represents the time interval between two scanning lines, theta is the included angle between the scanning line and blood flow, and omega0Is a constant.
And calculating to obtain a variance value sigma and a second energy value P of each pixel point, and combining the first energy value D and the black-and-white image data to jointly serve as parameters for subsequent threshold judgment, wherein each parameter contributes to noise suppression differently.
2. A preset threshold condition is determined.
In this embodiment, the preset threshold condition includes:
1) the first energy value is less than or equal to a first preset energy threshold.
The first energy value D represents the initial energy value before wall filtering, and pixels with too high initial energy are generally considered to be strong reflection noise.
2) The ratio of the first energy value to the second energy value is less than or equal to a preset energy ratio threshold.
Pixels with a first energy value D/second energy value P that are too high represent noise below the cutoff frequency.
3) The second energy value is greater than or equal to a second preset energy threshold.
The second energy value P represents the power of the pixel point after wall filtering, and according to the characteristic of the high-pass filter, the power of the pass band is higher at this time, and random noise with a certain amplitude exists in the whole frequency band, so the point where the second energy value P is smaller than a certain threshold value should be noise.
4) The variance value is less than or equal to a preset variance threshold.
The variance value σ represents the variance of the signal, and the larger the variance value is, the stronger the randomness of the representative signal is, and the easier it is to be noise.
5) The gray scale value of the black and white image data is less than or equal to a preset gray scale value.
Black and white grey values are an indication of the reflected energy from tissue, and for strong reflection points with higher grey values it is unlikely to be liquid, i.e. not likely to be blood flow, and should therefore be filtered out as noise.
In this embodiment, the five determination conditions are used as the preset threshold condition, and when the data of a pixel point meets all the conditions, the pixel point is represented as blood flow motion, and the data of the pixel point is blood flow data. For the value of each preset value, those skilled in the art can perform corresponding preset according to different implementation scenarios and use environments, which is not limited by the present disclosure.
3. And (6) judging a threshold value.
In the present embodiment, in view of improving the imaging accuracy and reducing the computation amount of data analysis processing, the method of area division and pixel-by-pixel combination determination described in the embodiment of fig. 3 is specifically:
firstly, dividing a display area into a plurality of sub-areas with 6-by-6 pixels;
and calculating a first energy value D, a second energy value P, a variance value sigma and an average value of gray values of the pixel points in the sub-region, and taking the average value of the parameters as the image data of the sub-region.
And judging whether the data of each sub-area simultaneously meets the preset threshold condition, if so, indicating that the sub-area contains color, and determining that the sub-area is a color area. If not, the sub-area does not contain color, and the color value is 0.
And performing threshold judgment on each pixel point data in the color area one by one, judging whether the pixel point simultaneously meets the preset threshold condition, and if so, indicating that the pixel point data is blood flow data. If not, the pixel point is not blood flow motion.
And S10, estimating the speed.
The velocity estimation in the ultrasound imaging is based on different parameter displays provided by different display modes, such as a color display mode, an energy display mode, a variance velocity display mode, and the like, and any display mode may be calculated in step S09.
And S11, performing color coding imaging on the image according to the data of the pixel points representing the blood flow motion and displaying the image. For example, the direction of blood flow moving towards the transducer is indicated in red, the direction moving away from the transducer is indicated in blue, while the speed of the blood flow is indicated by the brightness of the color.
In some embodiments, to improve the continuity of the ultrasound color image, after the velocity estimation, the ultrasound image is subjected to a time-dependent process, i.e., a frame-dependent process, based on the blood flow velocity. The time-dependent processing includes:
acquiring blood flow velocity data of a previous frame image of a current frame image;
judging whether the difference value of the blood flow speed data of the current frame image and the blood flow speed data of the previous frame image is larger than a first preset threshold value or not;
and if not, performing time correlation processing on the current frame image and the previous frame image.
Specifically, the blood flow velocity data of the image of the previous frame of the current frame image may be obtained from the stored previous frame data, and the difference between the blood flow velocity data of the image of the previous frame and the blood flow velocity data of the image of the current frame may be compared with a first preset threshold value, where the first preset threshold value represents the maximum variation value of the two adjacent frames of images.
If the difference value of the two adjacent frames of image data is greater than the first preset threshold value, it indicates that the blood flow has shifted or the scanning position has been switched, and the two frames of images are unrelated without frame correlation processing. And if the difference value of the two adjacent frames of image data is less than or equal to a first preset threshold value, the two frames of images before and after are related, and the images are continuous images, and the current image is subjected to frame related processing.
When the current image is subjected to frame correlation processing, firstly, color data of N frames of images in front of the current frame image are obtained, and according to the blood flow speed of the N frames of images and the set weight of each frame of image, the blood flow speed of the current frame image is obtained through pixel point-by-pixel point processing, so that time correlation processing is completed. And carrying out color coding and displaying according to the processed blood flow velocity data.
In the embodiment, in the time correlation processing, the change of the blood flow is fully considered, and whether the blood flow is shifted or not is judged according to the difference value of two adjacent frames of images, so that the time correlation processing is more accurate.
In a second aspect, as shown in fig. 5, the present disclosure provides an ultrasound color imaging processing apparatus comprising:
the acquisition module 100 is configured to acquire color echo signals and obtain color feature data of each sampling position according to the color echo signals;
the space transformation module 200 is configured to perform DSC digital scanning transformation according to the color feature data to obtain color image data of each pixel point in the image display area;
a determining module 300, configured to determine that data of a pixel point meeting a preset threshold condition is blood flow data, where the preset threshold condition is determined according to color image data;
and the encoding module 400 is configured to obtain blood flow velocity data of corresponding pixel points according to the blood flow data, and perform color encoding imaging on the image according to the blood flow velocity data.
In some embodiments, the determining module 300 is specifically configured to:
dividing an image display area into a plurality of sub-areas, wherein each sub-area comprises a plurality of pixel points;
according to the color image data of the pixel points in the sub-area, calculating to obtain the color image data of the sub-area;
determining a sub-area meeting a preset threshold condition as a color area;
and determining the data of the pixel points meeting the preset threshold condition as blood flow data according to the color image data of each pixel point in the color area.
In some embodiments, the obtaining module 100 is further configured to obtain a black-and-white echo signal, and process the black-and-white echo signal to obtain black-and-white feature data of each sampling position;
the spatial transformation module 200 is further configured to perform DSC digital scanning transformation according to the black-and-white feature data to obtain black-and-white image data of each pixel point of the image display area, where the black-and-white image data includes a gray value;
the determining module 300 is further configured to divide the image display area into a plurality of sub-areas, where each sub-area includes a plurality of pixel points;
calculating black-and-white image data of the sub-region according to the black-and-white image data of the pixel points in the sub-region;
determining a sub-area meeting a preset threshold condition as a color area; the preset threshold condition is determined according to the color image data and the black and white image data;
and determining the data meeting the preset threshold condition as blood flow data according to the color image data and the black and white image data of each pixel point in the color area.
In some embodiments, the apparatus further comprises:
the wall filtering module is used for carrying out wall filtering processing on the color echo signals; the color image data comprises a first energy value before wall filtering of each pixel point, a second energy value after wall filtering of each pixel point and a variance value;
the autocorrelation module is used for carrying out autocorrelation processing on the color echo signals after wall filtering processing to obtain characteristic intermediate parameters of each sampling position; the color feature data includes feature intermediate parameters and a first energy value for each sample position prior to wall filtering.
In a third aspect, the present disclosure provides an ultrasonic color imaging apparatus comprising:
a processor; and
a memory communicatively coupled to the processor and storing computer readable instructions executable by the processor, the processor executing a method according to any of the above embodiments when the computer readable instructions are read.
In a fourth aspect, the present disclosure provides a storage medium storing computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to perform the method according to any of the above embodiments.
Specifically, fig. 6 shows a schematic structural diagram of a computer system 600 suitable for implementing the method or processor of the present disclosure, and the electronic device and the storage medium provided in the third and fourth aspects are implemented by the system shown in fig. 6.
As shown in fig. 6, the computer system 600 includes a Central Processing Unit (CPU)601 that can perform various appropriate actions and processes according to a program stored in a Read Only Memory (ROM)602 or a program loaded from a storage section 608 into a Random Access Memory (RAM) 603. In the RAM 603, various programs and data necessary for the operation of the system 600 are also stored. The CPU 601, ROM 602, and RAM 603 are connected to each other via a bus 604. An input/output (I/O) interface 605 is also connected to bus 604.
The following components are connected to the I/O interface 605: an input portion 606 including a keyboard, a mouse, and the like; an output portion 607 including a display such as a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT), a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), and the like, and a speaker; a storage section 608 including a hard disk and the like; and a communication section 609 including a network interface card such as a LAN card, a modem, or the like. The communication section 609 performs communication processing via a network such as the internet. The driver 610 is also connected to the I/O interface 605 as needed. A removable medium 611 such as a magnetic disk, an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, a semiconductor memory, or the like is mounted on the drive 610 as necessary, so that a computer program read out therefrom is mounted in the storage section 608 as necessary.
In particular, the above method processes may be implemented as a computer software program according to embodiments of the present disclosure. For example, embodiments of the present disclosure include a computer program product comprising a computer program tangibly embodied on a machine-readable medium, the computer program comprising program code for performing the above-described method. In such embodiments, the computer program may be downloaded and installed from a network through the communication section 609, and/or installed from the removable medium 611.
The flowchart and block diagrams in the figures illustrate the architecture, functionality, and operation of possible implementations of systems, methods and computer program products according to various embodiments of the present disclosure. In this regard, each block in the flowchart or block diagrams may represent a module, segment, or portion of code, which comprises one or more executable instructions for implementing the specified logical function(s). It should also be noted that, in some alternative implementations, the functions noted in the block may occur out of the order noted in the figures. For example, two blocks shown in succession may, in fact, be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality involved. It will also be noted that each block of the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, and combinations of blocks in the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, can be implemented by special purpose hardware-based systems which perform the specified functions or acts, or combinations of special purpose hardware and computer instructions.
It should be understood that the above embodiments are only examples for clearly illustrating the present invention, and are not intended to limit the present invention. Other variations and modifications will be apparent to persons skilled in the art in light of the above description. And are neither required nor exhaustive of all embodiments. And obvious variations or modifications of the present disclosure may be made without departing from the scope of the present disclosure.
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1. An ultrasonic color imaging processing method, comprising:
acquiring color echo signals, and acquiring color characteristic data of each sampling position according to the color echo signals;
performing DSC digital scanning conversion according to the color characteristic data to obtain color image data of each pixel point of the image display area;
determining data of pixel points meeting a preset threshold condition as blood flow data, wherein the preset threshold condition is determined according to the color image data;
and obtaining blood flow velocity data of corresponding pixel points according to the blood flow data, and carrying out color coding imaging on the image according to the blood flow velocity data.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determining that the data of the pixel points satisfying the preset threshold condition is blood flow data comprises:
dividing an image display area into a plurality of sub-areas, wherein each sub-area comprises a plurality of pixel points;
according to the color image data of the pixel points in the sub-area, calculating to obtain the color image data of the sub-area;
determining the sub-area meeting the preset threshold condition as a color area;
and determining the data of the pixel points meeting the preset threshold condition as blood flow data according to the color image data of each pixel point in the color area.
3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
acquiring black and white echo signals, and processing the black and white echo signals to obtain black and white characteristic data of each sampling position;
performing DSC digital scanning conversion according to the black-and-white characteristic data to obtain black-and-white image data of each pixel point of an image display area, wherein the black-and-white image data comprises gray values;
dividing an image display area into a plurality of sub-areas, wherein each sub-area comprises a plurality of pixel points;
calculating black-and-white image data of the sub-region according to the black-and-white image data of the pixel points in the sub-region;
determining the sub-area meeting the preset threshold condition as a color area; the preset threshold condition is determined according to the color image data and the black and white image data;
and determining the data meeting the preset threshold condition as blood flow data according to the color image data and the black and white image data of each pixel point in the color area.
4. The method of claim 3, further comprising, prior to said deriving color characterization data for each sampling location from said color echo signals:
performing wall filtering processing on the color echo signals;
the color image data comprises a first energy value before wall filtering of each pixel point, a second energy value after wall filtering of each pixel point and a variance value.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the preset threshold condition comprises:
the first energy value is less than or equal to a first preset energy threshold;
the ratio of the first energy value to the second energy value is less than or equal to a preset energy ratio threshold;
the second energy value is greater than or equal to a second preset energy threshold;
the variance value is less than or equal to a preset variance threshold;
the gray value is less than or equal to a preset gray value;
the determining that the data of the pixel points meeting the preset threshold condition is blood flow data includes:
and when the data of the pixel point meets all conditions, determining that the data of the pixel point meets the preset threshold condition.
6. The method of claim 4, wherein said deriving color characterization data for each sampling location from the color echo signals comprises:
performing autocorrelation processing on the color echo signals after wall filtering processing to obtain the characteristic intermediate parameters of each sampling position;
obtaining the first energy value for each sample position before wall filtering; the color feature data includes the feature intermediate parameters and the first energy value for each sampling position before the wall filtering.
7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the performing the DSC digital scan conversion according to the color feature data to obtain color image data of each pixel point of an image display area comprises:
and calculating to obtain a second energy value and a variance value of each pixel point according to the characteristic intermediate parameters after DSC digital scanning conversion.
8. The method of claim 1, further comprising, after said color-coded imaging of an image from said blood flow velocity data:
acquiring blood flow velocity data of a previous frame image of a current frame image;
judging whether the difference value of the blood flow speed data of the current frame image and the blood flow speed data of the previous frame image is larger than a first preset threshold value or not;
if not, time correlation processing is carried out on the current frame image.
9. An ultrasonic color imaging processing apparatus, comprising:
the acquisition module is used for acquiring color echo signals and acquiring color characteristic data of each sampling position according to the color echo signals;
the space transformation module is used for carrying out DSC digital scanning transformation according to the color characteristic data to obtain color image data of each pixel point of the image display area;
the determining module is used for determining the data of the pixel points meeting a preset threshold condition as blood flow data, wherein the preset threshold condition is determined according to the color image data;
and the coding module is used for obtaining blood flow velocity data of corresponding pixel points according to the blood flow data and carrying out color coding imaging on the image according to the blood flow velocity data.
10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the determining module is specifically configured to:
dividing an image display area into a plurality of sub-areas, wherein each sub-area comprises a plurality of pixel points;
according to the color image data of the pixel points in the sub-area, calculating to obtain the color image data of the sub-area;
determining the sub-area meeting the preset threshold condition as a color area;
and determining the data of the pixel points meeting the preset threshold condition as blood flow data according to the color image data of each pixel point in the color area.
11. The apparatus of claim 9,
the acquisition module is further used for acquiring black and white echo signals and processing the black and white echo signals to obtain black and white characteristic data of each sampling position;
the space transformation module is further used for carrying out DSC digital scanning transformation according to the black-and-white characteristic data to obtain black-and-white image data of each pixel point of an image display area, and the black-and-white image data comprises a gray value;
the determining module is further configured to divide the image display area into a plurality of sub-areas, where each sub-area includes a plurality of pixel points;
calculating black-and-white image data of the sub-region according to the black-and-white image data of the pixel points in the sub-region;
determining the sub-area meeting the preset threshold condition as a color area; the preset threshold condition is determined according to the color image data and the black and white image data;
and determining the data meeting the preset threshold condition as blood flow data according to the color image data and the black and white image data of each pixel point in the color area.
12. The apparatus of claim 9, further comprising:
the wall filtering module is used for carrying out wall filtering processing on the color echo signals; the color image data comprises a first energy value before wall filtering of each pixel point, a second energy value after wall filtering of each pixel point and a variance value;
the autocorrelation module is used for performing autocorrelation processing on the color echo signals after wall filtering processing to obtain the characteristic intermediate parameters of each sampling position; the color feature data includes the feature intermediate parameters and the first energy value for each sampling position before the wall filtering.
13. An ultrasonic color imaging apparatus, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory, communicatively coupled to the processor, storing computer readable instructions executable by the processor, the processor performing the method of any of claims 1 to 8 when the computer readable instructions are read.
14. A storage medium having stored thereon computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to perform the method of any one of claims 1 to 8.
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