CN114356922A

CN114356922A - Ultrasonic imaging system and data transmission method thereof

Info

Publication number: CN114356922A
Application number: CN202111649685.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 陈飞虎; 王笃磊
Original assignee: Vinno Technology Suzhou Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vinno Technology Suzhou Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-12-30
Filing date: 2021-12-30
Publication date: 2022-04-15

Abstract

The invention discloses an ultrasonic imaging system and a data transmission method thereof, wherein the method comprises the following steps: acquiring data of a plurality of scanning lines which are arranged in sequence; storing the data of the nth scanning line into the nth bit of the precise table; calculating difference data of the next scanning line and the data of the previous scanning line in sequence, storing the difference data into a position corresponding to the next scanning line in a precise table, and replacing the data of the previous scanning line in the cache region with the data of the next scanning line; by the data transmission method of the ultrasonic imaging system, the data transmission quantity can be greatly reduced, so that the ultrasonic imaging system is more miniaturized, higher in cruising ability, higher in system switching real-time performance and smaller in long-term work heating.

Description

Ultrasonic imaging system and data transmission method thereof

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of medical equipment, in particular to an ultrasonic imaging system and a data transmission method thereof.

Background

The medical ultrasonic imaging system scans a human body by using an ultrasonic sound beam, and obtains images of tissues and organs in the human body by receiving and processing data of echo signals of the tissues or the organs. The miniaturization and portability of the ultrasonic equipment are beneficial to the wider application of the ultrasonic equipment.

However, the conventional large-scale ultrasound equipment does not have or has no obvious problem, and is especially prominent in the miniaturization process, for example, huge data volume during ultrasound scanning, on one hand, the computing capability of the miniaturized equipment is difficult to meet, the real-time performance is poor when the system switches parameters, on the other hand, higher power consumption is brought, the equipment is hot, and particularly for the wireless small-scale ultrasound equipment, the endurance is short, and the bandwidth of wireless transmission cannot meet the requirement of large-scale data transmission.

The existing ultrasonic scanning data is shown in fig. 1 and comprises a complete scanning mode (S40), wherein the complete scanning mode comprises scanning of a plurality of surfaces (S41); the scan of each plane contains a plurality of sets of transmissions (S42), grouped in B mode (two-dimensional image mode), HAR mode (harmonic mode), CF mode (color doppler mode), PW mode (pulse doppler mode), TM mode (M mode), etc.; each group containing a plurality of scan segments (S43, S44, S45); each segment contains a plurality of scan lines (L0, L1 … … Lm), each scan line comprising a plurality of bits, so that the entire complete scan pattern has a large amount of data.

The above-described problems limit the development of miniaturization of ultrasound apparatuses, and particularly, the development of wireless ultrasound apparatuses.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve at least one of the above-mentioned problems in the prior art, an object of the present invention is to provide an ultrasound imaging system with a substantially reduced data volume and a data transmission method thereof.

In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of the present invention provides a data transmission method for an ultrasound imaging system, including the following steps:

acquiring data of a plurality of scanning lines which are arranged in sequence;

storing the data of the nth scanning line into the nth bit of the precise table;

calculating difference data of the (n + 1) th scanning line and the data of the nth scanning line;

storing the difference data of the (n + 1) th scanning line into the (n + 1) th bit of the refined table, and simultaneously storing the data of the (n + 1) th scanning line into a cache region;

and sequentially calculating difference data of the next scanning line and the data of the previous scanning line, storing the difference data into the position corresponding to the next scanning line in the refined table, and replacing the data of the previous scanning line in the cache region with the data of the next scanning line.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the nth scan line is the first scan line.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the step of "calculating difference data of the (n + 1) th scan line and data of the nth scan line" includes:

calculating difference data of the (n + 1) th scanning line and the data of the (n) th scanning line through an exclusive-or algorithm, wherein the difference data comprise index information and difference content information, the index information comprises an index number corresponding to a position on the data of the (n + 1) th scanning line and the data of the (n) th scanning line, the content of the same position is different, and the difference content information comprises a specific difference value of the position corresponding to the index number.

As a further improvement of the invention, the method also comprises the following steps:

acquiring an original scanning parameter table, wherein the original scanning parameter table comprises original data of a plurality of scanning lines which are arranged in sequence;

and compressing the original data of each scanning line to obtain the data of each scanning line.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the original scanning parameter table includes a plurality of groups of modules, each group of modules includes a plurality of scanning lines;

the plurality of groups of modules correspond to one or more of a two-dimensional image module, a color Doppler module, a pulse Doppler module, a harmonic module and an M module.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the original scanning parameter table includes a first module and a second module, the first module includes p scanning lines, the second module includes q scanning lines, and the first module and the second module are respectively different types of modules among a two-dimensional image module, a color doppler module, a pulse doppler module, a harmonic module, and an M module;

further comprising the steps of:

storing the difference data of the last scanning line of the first module into the p-th bit of the precise table, and simultaneously storing the data of the last scanning line of the first module in a buffer area;

calculating difference data of a first scanning line of the second module and data of a last scanning line of the first module;

and storing the difference data of the first scanning line of the second module into the p +1 th bit of the fine profile, and replacing the data of the last scanning line of the first module in the buffer area with the data of the first scanning line of the second module.

As a further improvement of the present invention, the original scanning parameter table includes a first module, a second module and a third module, the first module includes p scanning lines, the second module includes q scanning lines, the third module includes M scanning lines, and the first module, the second module and the third module are respectively different types of modules among a two-dimensional image module, a color doppler module, a pulse doppler module, a harmonic module and an M module;

further comprising the steps of:

storing the difference data of the first scanning line of the second module into the p +1 th bit of the precise table, and simultaneously storing the data of the last scanning line of the first module and the data of the first scanning line of the second module in the buffer area;

calculating difference data of the other scanning lines in the second module and storing the difference data into the precise table;

calculating difference data of a first scanning line of the third module and data of a last scanning line of the first module;

storing the difference data of the first scan line of the third module into the (p + q + 1) th bit of the fine profile, and simultaneously replacing the data of the last scan line of the first module in the cache region with the data of the first scan line of the third module;

and calculating difference data of the rest scanning lines in the third module and storing the difference data into the fine profile.

As a further improvement of the present invention, each scanning line in the precise table includes a head portion, a data portion and a tail portion, each head portion includes a fixed header, each tail portion includes an end check mark, the data portion of the nth bit includes all data of the nth scanning line, and the data portions of the remaining bits include difference data of the scanning line corresponding to the bit.

In order to achieve one of the above objects, an embodiment of the present invention provides a data transmission method for an ultrasound imaging system, including the following steps:

acquiring a simplified table of a plurality of scanning lines which are arranged in sequence;

setting data of an nth scanning line of the fine profile as baseline data;

restoring the difference data of the (n + 1) th scanning line into the data of the (n + 1) th scanning line according to the baseline data;

and restoring the difference data of the (n + 2) th scanning line into the data of the (n + 2) th scanning line according to the data of the (n + 1) th scanning line, and restoring the data of all the scanning lines in the same way.

To achieve one of the above objects, an embodiment of the present invention provides an ultrasound imaging system, including:

the first acquisition module is used for acquiring data of a plurality of scanning lines which are arranged in sequence;

the first storing module is used for storing the data of the nth scanning line into the nth bit of the precise table;

the first calculation module is used for calculating difference data of the (n + 1) th scanning line and the data of the nth scanning line;

the second storing module is used for storing the difference data of the (n + 1) th scanning line into the (n + 1) th bit of the refined table and storing the data of the (n + 1) th scanning line in a cache region;

the first calculating module is further configured to sequentially calculate difference data between data of a next scanning line and data of a previous scanning line, and the second storing module is further configured to store the difference data in a position corresponding to the next scanning line in the precise table, and replace the data of the previous scanning line in the buffer area with the data of the next scanning line.

the second acquisition module is used for acquiring a reduced table of a plurality of scanning lines which are arranged in sequence;

the setting module is used for setting the data of the nth scanning line of the fine profile as baseline data;

and the restoring module is used for restoring the difference data of the (n + 1) th scanning line into the data of the (n + 1) th scanning line according to the baseline data, restoring the difference data of the (n + 2) th scanning line into the data of the (n + 2) th scanning line according to the data of the (n + 1) th scanning line, and restoring the data of all the scanning lines by analogy.

To achieve one of the above objects, an embodiment of the present invention provides an electronic device, including:

a storage module storing a computer program;

and the processing module can realize the steps in the data transmission method when executing the computer program.

To achieve one of the above objects, an embodiment of the present invention provides a readable storage medium, which stores a computer program, and the computer program can implement the steps in the data transmission method when being executed by a processing module.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following beneficial effects: the data transmission method of the ultrasonic imaging system can greatly reduce the data transmission amount, further enables the ultrasonic imaging system to be more miniaturized, higher in cruising ability, higher in system switching real-time performance and smaller in long-term work heating, reduces the requirement on bandwidth transmission rate when data are transmitted through a wireless network, enables more data to be processed in miniaturized ultrasonic equipment, and is beneficial to better development of the miniaturized ultrasonic equipment.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic illustration of a complete set of scan patterns of existing ultrasound scan data;

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of a compression stage in a data transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a storage sequence of compression links according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a format of data stored in a reduced table according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 5 is a flow chart of a decompression segment in the data transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a hardware scanning flow of a decompression segment according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a timing diagram for scanning while the ultrasound probe of an embodiment of the present invention is in operation;

FIG. 8 is a block diagram of a host according to an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 9 is a block diagram of an ultrasound probe in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a block schematic diagram of an ultrasound imaging system of an embodiment of the present invention;

1000, an ultrasonic imaging system; 100. a host; 200. an ultrasonic probe; 10. a processing module; 20. a storage module; 30. a signal transmission module; 40. an image display module; 50. a communication bus; 60. a signal transmission module; 70. a processing unit; 80. a wafer; 90. and a memory unit.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to specific embodiments shown in the drawings. These embodiments are not intended to limit the present invention, and structural, methodological, or functional changes made by those skilled in the art according to these embodiments are included in the scope of the present invention.

An embodiment of the invention provides an ultrasonic imaging system with a greatly reduced data volume and a data transmission method thereof, and the data transmission method can greatly reduce the data transmission volume, so that the ultrasonic imaging system is more miniaturized, has higher cruising ability, higher system switching real-time performance and smaller long-term work heating.

The ultrasound imaging system 1000 of the present embodiment is used for performing ultrasound scanning, the ultrasound imaging system 1000 includes a host 100 and an ultrasound probe 200, the host 100 is used for sending information on how to scan, and the ultrasound probe 200 receives the scanning information to perform scanning. Taking scanning a human body as an example, ultrasonic wave characteristic information of human tissue and organ structure is obtained by using propagation of ultrasonic wave in the human body, ultrasonic echo is obtained, and an image of ultrasonic scanning is obtained. Referring to the background art and fig. 1, a set of complete ultrasound scanning data may include a plurality of scanning lines, in this embodiment, the compression method shown in fig. 2 is adopted, so that the data amount of the plurality of scanning lines sent by the host 100 is greatly reduced, the storage sequence of the compression link is shown in fig. 3, and the format of the compressed data is shown in fig. 4.

Although the present application provides method operational steps as described in the following embodiments or flowcharts, the method is not limited to the order of execution provided in the embodiments of the present application in which the steps are logically not necessarily causal, based on conventional or non-inventive labor.

The data transmission method of the ultrasound imaging system 1000 specifically includes the following steps:

step 101: and acquiring data of a plurality of scanning lines which are arranged in sequence.

Here, the data of the scan line may be directly acquired, or the following steps may be adopted:

The host 100 may include a compression module, where the data size of the original data is reduced after being compressed by the compression module, and the original data of each scan line is compressed to be a plurality of compressed data arranged in sequence.

In addition, the compression step of the compression module may be performed first, and then the above step 101 is started, or the compression may be performed when the difference data calculation is performed on each line in the following text, that is, the original data of each scan line is compressed first, then the difference data calculation is performed, and then the next scan line is compressed.

Taking the background art or fig. 1 as an example, a plurality of scanning lines are sequentially arranged in a certain order, namely L0, L1, and … … Lm, and the ultrasound probe 200 scans column by column in the order of the arrangement of the scanning lines. In fig. 3, the original scan parameter table S00 includes all scan lines of a frame of a scan, which include original data composed of S01, S02, S03, and so on, and the original data is compressed to obtain the data.

Step 102: and storing the data of the nth scanning line into the nth bit of the precise table.

The nth scanning line is the first scanning line, namely the L0, the first scanning line is determined as a base line, and the data of the first scanning line is directly stored.

In FIG. 3, the first scanline is stored in its entirety to the start of the fine profile, i.e., the location of the first line stored in block S11.

Step 103: and calculating difference data of the (n + 1) th scanning line and the data of the nth scanning line.

And when n is 1, the (n + 1) th scanning line is the second scanning line, and the difference data between the data of the second scanning line and the data of the 1 st scanning line is calculated.

The method for calculating the difference data can calculate the difference data between the data of the (n + 1) th scanning line and the data of the (n) th scanning line through an exclusive-or algorithm, wherein the difference data comprises index information and difference content information, the index information comprises an index number corresponding to a position where the content of the same position on the data of the (n + 1) th scanning line and the content of the same position on the data of the (n) th scanning line are different, and the difference content information comprises a specific difference value of the position corresponding to the index number.

Since many bits of many scanning lines are the same, especially, there is a difference only in the position of part between the adjacent scanning lines, so that many repeated data can be omitted by the calculation method of difference data, and only the part of difference is reserved, specifically, the specific difference content can be determined by the index information and the difference content information.

For example, assuming that each scan line has 100 bits, the nth scan line is different from the (n + 1) th scan line in that there is a difference between the 69 th bit and the 72 th bit, and the remaining 98 th bits have the same data, in the xor algorithm, when two bits have the same data, the obtained value is 0, and the value obtained when the two bits have the same data is not 1, that is, the values of the remaining 98 th bits have 0, and are not expressed, only the 69 th bit and the 72 th bit are recorded in the index information, and the difference between the specific contents of the 69 th bit and the 72 th bit is recorded in the difference content information. Except the data of the first scanning line, all the other scanning lines are stored in the form of difference data, so that the data volume is greatly reduced.

Step 104: and storing the difference data of the (n + 1) th scanning line into the (n + 1) th bit of the refined table, and simultaneously storing the data of the (n + 1) th scanning line into a buffer area.

The data except the nth bit in the precise profile is the complete data of the scanning line, and the data after the nth bit is all differential data from the (n + 1) th bit.

Step 105: and calculating difference data of the next scanning line and the data of the previous scanning line in sequence.

And performing difference calculation on the data of the (n + 2) th scanning line and the data of the (n + 1) th scanning line, performing difference calculation on the data of the (n + 3) th scanning line and the data of the (n + 2) th scanning line, and repeating the steps to complete the difference calculation of all the scanning lines, namely performing difference calculation on each line and the previous adjacent scanning line. In that

Step 106: and storing the difference data into the position corresponding to the next scanning line in the precise table, and replacing the data of the previous scanning line in the buffer area with the data of the next scanning line.

And (3) performing difference calculation on the n +2 th scanning line and the n +1 th scanning line, wherein although the data of the n +1 th scanning line is changed into difference data and is stored into a precise table, in step 104, the data of the n +1 th scanning line is stored in a cache region, so that the data of the n +2 th scanning line is compared with the data of the n +1 th scanning line in the cache region in a difference mode, after the difference data of the n +2 th scanning line is calculated, the data of the n +2 th scanning line is replaced by the data of the n +1 th scanning line in the cache region, and by analogy, after the difference data of any subsequent scanning line is calculated, the data of the scanning line is replaced by the data of the previous scanning line in the cache region.

The original scanning parameter table comprises a plurality of groups of modules, and each group of modules comprises a plurality of scanning lines. The ultrasonic imaging system comprises a plurality of groups of modules, a color Doppler module (CF module), a pulse Doppler module (PW module), a harmonic module (HAR module) and an M module (TM module), wherein the plurality of groups of modules correspond to one or more of the two-dimensional image module (B module), the color Doppler module (PW module), the harmonic module (CF module) and the M module, the two-dimensional image module (B module) corresponds to a B mode in ultrasonic, the color Doppler module (CF module) corresponds to a CF mode in ultrasonic, the pulse Doppler module (PW module) corresponds to a PW mode in ultrasonic, the harmonic module (HAR module) corresponds to an HAR mode in ultrasonic, and the M module corresponds to an M mode in ultrasonic.

Continuing with fig. 3 as an example, the module S00 corresponds to a surface (stream) in fig. 1 of the background art, that is, a frame in the ultrasound image, each frame has a baseline, and the contents of the scanning lines in each frame of the ultrasound image are completely the same, except that the scanning times of each frame are different. The host 100 sends a precise profile S10 to the ultrasound probe 200.

Further, as shown in fig. 4, each scanned line in the precise table includes a head portion, a data portion, and a tail portion, each head portion includes a fixed header, each tail portion includes an end check mark, the data portion of the nth bit includes all data of the nth scanned line, and the data portions of the remaining bits include difference data of the scanned line corresponding to the bit.

The ultrasound imaging system 1000 may have a simplex mode, a duplex mode, a triplex mode, etc., in which the original scan parameter table includes a set of two-dimensional image module, color doppler module, pulse doppler module, harmonic module, M module. In the duplex mode, the original scanning parameter table comprises two different modules of a two-dimensional image module, a color Doppler module, a pulse Doppler module, a harmonic module and an M module. In the triplex mode, the original scanning parameter table comprises three different modules of a two-dimensional image module, a color Doppler module, a pulse Doppler module, a harmonic module and an M module, and so on.

In simplex mode, the method described above is operated.

Specifically, the original scan parameter table only includes a group of modules, which may be two-dimensional image modules (B modules), and in fig. 3, the original data of all scan lines in the B module (S01) are compressed by the compression module, where the first scan line is stored in the refined table S11, the difference data of all remaining scan lines is stored in the corresponding position in S11, and the compression processing calculation of S01 is completed.

In a duplex mode, the original scanning parameter table comprises a first module and a second module, the first module comprises p scanning lines, the second module comprises q scanning lines, and the p + q scanning lines are included in total, and the specific method comprises the following steps:

Next, the next scanning line in the second module is differentiated and compared with the previous adjacent scanning line in the second module, the difference data is stored in S12 of fig. 3, and the precise recording of the difference data of all the scanning lines in S02 is sequentially completed.

In a triplex mode, the original scanning parameter table includes a first module, a second module and a third module, the first module includes p scanning lines, the second module includes q scanning lines, the third module includes m scanning lines, and the total scanning lines include p + q + m scanning lines, and the specific method includes:

and calculating difference data of the rest scanning lines in the third module, storing the difference data into the precise table, comparing the next scanning line in the third module with the previous adjacent scanning line in the third module in a differentiation mode, storing the difference data into S13 in FIG. 3, and sequentially completing the precise table entry of the difference data of all the scanning lines in S03.

The above steps are mainly steps of compressing data in the host 100, and the following discusses a process of decompressing data of the ultrasonic probe 200, where the decompressing step is shown in fig. 5, a hardware scanning flow of the decompressing step is shown in fig. 6, and a scanning timing chart of the ultrasonic probe 200 during operation is shown in fig. 7.

The method comprises the following steps:

setting data of an nth scanning line of the fine profile as baseline data;

Referring to fig. 6, the area a and the area B in fig. 6 are two areas artificially divided in the processing unit 70(FPGA) of the ultrasound probe 200, where the baseline in the area a specifically refers to the nth scan line, when n is 1, the first scan line is the first scan line at the start of each scan, the first scan line is determined as a baseline, and the line in the area B refers to other lines excluding the baseline at the start of the scan.

Then, the processing unit 70 stores the base line in the acquired scanning information into the area a completely, and stores other scanning lines except the base line into the area B sequentially, where the data format of the scanning lines is as shown in fig. 4.

At the beginning of operation, referring to fig. 6 and referring to fig. 7, when the trigger signal (TRIG) controlled by the internal logic of the processing unit 70 is low, the baseline data is written into the a area, and the baseline data of the a area is read and stored into the B mode (B mode) of the C area (in the case of CF mode operation, both B mode and CF mode are stored).

When the logic control trigger signal (TRIG) is high, the B-mode (B-mode) is read out from the C-region (in the case of CF-mode operation, the data of the B-mode and CF-mode scan lines are read out simultaneously to the respective blocks, such as AFE (analog front end block), TX (transmit block), BF (beam forming block)).

Next, at low TRIG level, read the other scan lines from the B area and resolve:

if the mode is B/PW/TM mode, writing the scanning line into a RAM corresponding to B mode (B mode) of a C area, restoring data of different parts in the B mode RAM, and reading the scanning line from the B mode RAM to each module (AFE, TX and BF modules) when TRIG is at high level;

if the mode is CF mode, the scanning line is written into the RAM corresponding to the CF mode (CF mode) in the C area, the data of different parts in the CF mode RAM is restored, and the scanning line is read from the B mode RAM to each module (AFE, TX and BF modules) when the TRIG is in high level.

After scanning of one frame (one stream or S00), reading corresponding baseline content from the area A and writing the baseline content into the B mode RAM and the CF mode RAM in the area C, and repeating the steps to perform a new round of scanning.

The data transmission method of the ultrasonic imaging system 1000 can greatly reduce the data transmission amount, further enables the ultrasonic imaging system 1000 to be more miniaturized, higher in cruising ability, higher in system switching real-time performance and less in long-term work heating, reduces the requirement on bandwidth transmission rate when data are transmitted through a wireless network, enables more data to be processed in miniaturized ultrasonic equipment, and is beneficial to better development of the miniaturized ultrasonic equipment.

In one embodiment, an ultrasound imaging system 1000 is provided, the ultrasound imaging system 1000 includes a host 100 and an ultrasound probe 200, the host 100 and the ultrasound probe 200 can be connected in a wired or wireless manner, and the data volume is greatly reduced due to the data transmission method, so that the host 100 can be connected in a wireless manner, the host 100 mainly completes the compression of the ultrasound scanning data, and the ultrasound probe 200 is simultaneously used for decompression of the data and scanning of the human body.

As shown in fig. 8, the host 100 may include a first obtaining module, a first storing module, a first calculating module, and a second storing module, where the specific functions of the modules are as follows:

In one embodiment, the first storing module is used for storing the data of the 1 st scan line into the 1 st bit of the precise list.

In one embodiment, the first calculating module is configured to calculate difference data between data of an (n + 1) th scan line and data of an nth scan line through an xor algorithm, where the difference data includes index information and difference content information, the index information includes an index number corresponding to a position where content of the same position on the data of the (n + 1) th scan line and the data of the nth scan line are different, and the difference content information includes a specific difference value of the position corresponding to the index number.

In one embodiment, the system comprises a first obtaining module, a second obtaining module, a third obtaining module and a fourth obtaining module, wherein the first obtaining module is used for obtaining an original scanning parameter table, and the original scanning parameter table comprises original data of a plurality of scanning lines which are arranged in sequence;

In one embodiment, the original scanning parameter table comprises a plurality of groups of modules, each group of modules comprises a plurality of scanning lines;

In one embodiment, the original scanning parameter table comprises a first module and a second module, the first module comprises p scanning lines, the second module comprises q scanning lines, and the first module and the second module are respectively different types of modules in a two-dimensional image module, a color Doppler module, a pulse Doppler module, a harmonic module and an M module;

the second storing module is used for storing the difference data of the last scanning line of the first module into the p-th bit of the precise table and storing the data of the last scanning line of the first module in a cache region;

a first calculating module, configured to calculate difference data between data of a first scan line of the second module and data of a last scan line of the first module;

and the second storing module is used for storing the difference data of the first scanning line of the second module into the (p + 1) th bit of the precise table, and simultaneously replacing the data of the last scanning line of the first module in the cache region with the data of the first scanning line of the second module.

In one embodiment, the original scanning parameter table comprises a first module, a second module and a third module, wherein the first module comprises p scanning lines, the second module comprises q scanning lines, the third module comprises M scanning lines, and the first module, the second module and the third module are respectively different types of modules in a two-dimensional image module, a color Doppler module, a pulse Doppler module, a harmonic module and an M module;

a second storing module, configured to store the difference data of the first scan line of the second module into the (p + 1) th bit of the precise table, and store the data of the last scan line of the first module and the data of the first scan line of the second module in the buffer area at the same time;

the first calculation module is used for calculating the difference data of the rest scanning lines in the second module, and the second storage module is used for storing the difference data into the precise profile;

a first calculating module, configured to calculate difference data between data of a first scan line of the third module and data of a last scan line of the first module;

the second storing module is used for storing the difference data of the first scanning line of the third module into the (p + q + 1) th bit of the fine profile, and simultaneously replacing the data of the last scanning line of the first module in the cache region with the data of the first scanning line of the third module;

the first calculating module is used for calculating the difference data of the rest scanning lines in the third module, and the second storing module is used for storing the difference data into the precise profile.

In one embodiment, each scan line in the precise table comprises a head part, a data part and a tail part, each head part comprises a fixed header, each tail part comprises an end check mark, the data part of the nth bit comprises all data of the nth scan line, and the data part of each rest of bits comprises difference data of the scan line corresponding to the bit.

In one embodiment, the ultrasound probe 200 is partially as shown in FIG. 9. The ultrasound probe 200 may include a second acquisition module, a setting module, and a restoring module, each of which has the following specific functions:

The host 100 may further include a computing device such as a computer, a notebook, a palm computer, and a cloud server. Further, the system may include, but is not limited to, a processing module 10 and a storage module 20. The ultrasound probe 200 may include a processing unit 70, and the processing unit 70 may be an FPGA, CPU, GPU, or the like. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the schematic diagram is merely an example of the ultrasound imaging system 1000, and does not constitute a limitation of the ultrasound imaging system 1000 terminal devices, and may include more or less components than those shown, or combine some components, or different components, for example, the ultrasound imaging system 1000 may also include input and output devices, network access devices, buses, etc.

It should be noted that, the details of the ultrasound imaging system 1000 according to the embodiment of the present invention are not disclosed, and please refer to the details disclosed in the data transmission method of the ultrasound imaging system 1000 according to the embodiment of the present invention.

According to the ultrasonic imaging system 1000 provided by the invention, the data transmission quantity can be greatly reduced, so that the ultrasonic imaging system 1000 is more miniaturized, has higher cruising ability, higher system switching real-time property and less heating in long-term work, and when data is transmitted through a wireless network, the requirement on bandwidth transmission rate is reduced, so that more data can be processed in miniaturized ultrasonic equipment, and the miniaturized ultrasonic equipment can be better developed.

Fig. 10 is a block diagram of an ultrasound imaging system 1000 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The ultrasound imaging system 1000 further includes the above-described host 100 and the ultrasound probe 200.

The host 100 includes a processing module 10, a storage module 20, and a computer program stored in the storage module 20 and operable on the processing module 10, such as the compression program in the data transmission method of the ultrasound imaging system 1000 described above. The processing module 10, when executing the computer program, implements the compression steps in the data transmission method embodiments of the respective ultrasound imaging systems 1000 described above, such as the steps shown in fig. 2.

The host 100 may further include a compression module for compressing data, which may be a kind of software or hardware carrying a compression program, a signal transmission module 30, an image display module 40, and a communication bus 50, and the image display module 40 is used for displaying an image of the ultrasonic waves. The communication bus 50 is used to establish a connection between the signal transmission module 30, the image display module 40, the processing module 10 and the storage module 20, and the communication bus 50 may include a path for transmitting information between the signal transmission module 30, the image display module 40, the processing module 10 and the storage module 20.

The ultrasound probe 200 comprises a wafer 80, a processing unit 70, a memory unit 90, a signal transmission module 60, and a computer program stored in said memory unit 90 and executable on said processing module 10, such as the decompression program in the data transmission method of the ultrasound imaging system 1000 described above. The processing unit 70, when executing the computer program, implements the decompression steps in the above-described data transmission method embodiments of the respective ultrasound imaging systems 1000, such as the steps shown in fig. 3.

The signal transmission module 60 and the signal transmission module 30 can transmit data through a wireless connection, such as bluetooth, wifi, zigbee, etc.

In addition, the present invention further provides an electronic device, which includes a storage module 20 and a processing module 10, and when the processing module 10 executes the computer program, the steps in the data transmission method of the ultrasound imaging system 1000 described above can be implemented, that is, the steps in any one technical solution of the data transmission method of the ultrasound imaging system 1000 described above can be implemented.

The electronic device may be a part integrated in the host 100, or a local terminal device, or may be a part of a cloud server.

The Processing module 10 and the Processing Unit 70 may be a Central Processing Unit 70 (CPU), other general-purpose Processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), an off-the-shelf Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or other Programmable logic device, a discrete Gate or transistor logic device, a discrete hardware component, and the like. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like. The processing module 10 is a control center of the host 100, and various interfaces and lines are used to connect various parts of the entire host 100. The processing unit 70 is the control center of the ultrasound probe 200, and connects the various parts of the entire ultrasound probe 200 with various interfaces and lines.

The memory module 20 and the memory unit 90 can be used to store the computer programs and/or modules, and implement various functions of the ultrasound imaging system 1000 by running or executing the computer programs and/or modules stored in the memory module 20 and the memory unit 90 and calling up the data stored in the memory module 20 and the memory unit 90. The storage module 20 and the storage unit 90 may mainly include a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area may store an operating system, an application program (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.) required by at least one function, and the like; the storage data area may store data created according to the use of the cellular phone such as audio data, a phonebook, etc.), and the like. In addition, the memory module 20 and the memory unit 90 may include a high-speed random access memory, and may also include a non-volatile memory, such as a hard disk, a memory, a plug-in hard disk, a Smart Media Card (SMC), a Secure Digital (SD) Card, a Flash memory Card (Flash Card), at least one magnetic disk storage device, a Flash memory device, or other volatile solid state storage device.

Illustratively, the computer program may be divided into one or more modules/units, which are stored in the memory module 20 or the memory unit 90 and executed by the processing module 10 or the processing unit 70 to accomplish the present invention. The one or more modules/units may be a series of computer program instruction segments capable of performing specific functions for describing the execution of the computer program in the data transmission method of the ultrasound imaging system 1000.

Further, an embodiment of the present invention provides a readable storage medium, which stores a computer program, and the computer program, when being executed by the processing module 10, can implement the steps in the data transmission method of the ultrasound imaging system 1000, that is, implement the steps in any one of the technical solutions in the data transmission method of the ultrasound imaging system 1000.

The data transmission method integrated modules of the ultrasound imaging system 1000, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as separate products, may be stored in a computer readable storage medium. Based on such understanding, all or part of the flow of the method according to the embodiments of the present invention may also be implemented by a computer program, which may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the steps of the method embodiments may be implemented.

Wherein the computer program comprises computer program code, which may be in the form of source code, object code, an executable file or some intermediate form, etc. The computer-readable medium may include: any entity or device capable of carrying said computer program code, recording medium, diskettes, removable hard disks, magnetic disks, optical disks, computer Memory, Read-Only Memory (ROM), Random Access Memory (RAM), electrical carrier wave signals, telecommunications signals, software distribution media, and the like. It should be noted that the computer readable medium may contain content that is subject to appropriate increase or decrease as required by legislation and patent practice in jurisdictions, for example, in some jurisdictions, computer readable media does not include electrical carrier signals and telecommunications signals as is required by legislation and patent practice.

It should be understood that although the present description refers to embodiments, not every embodiment contains only a single technical solution, and such description is for clarity only, and those skilled in the art should make the description as a whole, and the technical solutions in the embodiments can also be combined appropriately to form other embodiments understood by those skilled in the art.

The above-listed detailed description is only a specific description of a possible embodiment of the present invention, and they are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and equivalent embodiments or modifications made without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention should be included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A data transmission method for an ultrasound imaging system, comprising the steps of:

acquiring data of a plurality of scanning lines which are arranged in sequence;

2. The data transmission method according to claim 1, wherein the nth scan line is a first scan line.

3. The data transmission method according to claim 1, wherein the step of calculating the difference data between the data of the (n + 1) th scan line and the data of the (n) th scan line comprises:

4. The data transmission method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

5. The data transmission method according to claim 4, wherein the original scan parameter table comprises a plurality of groups of modules, each group of modules comprising a plurality of scan lines;

6. The data transmission method according to claim 5, wherein the original scan parameter table comprises a first module and a second module, the first module comprises p scan lines, the second module comprises q scan lines, and the first module and the second module are respectively different types of modules from a two-dimensional image module, a color Doppler module, a pulse Doppler module, a harmonic module, and an M module;

further comprising the steps of:

7. The data transmission method according to claim 5, wherein the original scan parameter table comprises a first module, a second module and a third module, the first module comprises p scan lines, the second module comprises q scan lines, the third module comprises M scan lines, and the first module, the second module and the third module are respectively different types of modules from a two-dimensional image module, a color Doppler module, a pulse Doppler module, a harmonic module and an M module;

further comprising the steps of:

8. The data transmission method according to claim 1, wherein each scan line in the precise table comprises a head part, a data part and a tail part, each head part comprises a fixed header, each tail part comprises an end check mark, the data part of the nth bit comprises all data of the nth scan line, and the data part of each remaining bit comprises difference data of the scan line corresponding to the bit.

9. A data transmission method for an ultrasound imaging system, comprising the steps of:

setting data of an nth scanning line of the fine profile as baseline data;

10. An ultrasound imaging system, comprising:

11. An ultrasound imaging system, comprising:

12. An electronic device, comprising:

a storage module storing a computer program;

a processing module, capable of implementing the steps of the data transmission method according to any one of claims 1 to 9 when executing the computer program.

13. A readable storage medium, in which a computer program is stored, which, when being executed by a processing module, is adapted to carry out the steps of the data transmission method according to any one of claims 1 to 9.