IP Library Granted Patent US 12667327
Granted Patent B2
US 12667327 · App. 19/066,085 · Granted Jun 30, 2026

Medical image acquisition guidance device, medical image acquisition guidance system, and program

Inventor: Yukiya Miyachi (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
A61B8/0825A61B6/488A61B6/502A61B8/403A61B8/463A61B8/5261
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 12667327
App. No.
19/066,085
Filed
Feb 27, 2025
Granted
Jun 30, 2026
Kind
B2
Art Unit
3798
USPC
600/440
Abstract

A console as a medical image acquisition guidance device includes a projection processing unit configured to, in a case in which a radiation image and an ultrasound image of a breast in a state of being compressed by a compression member are captured, perform processing of projecting a guide image for guiding at least one of a scanning region or a scanning direction of an ultrasound probe used for capturing the ultrasound image onto a side of the compression member opposite to a compression side of the breast according to an effective width, which is a region in which transmission and reception of an ultrasonic wave are possible, of the ultrasound probe, in capturing the ultrasound image.

Claims (27)

1 . A medical image acquisition guidance device comprising:

a processor; and

a projection unit,

wherein the processor is configured to, in a case in which a radiation image and an ultrasound image of a breast in a state of being compressed by a compression member are captured, in capturing the ultrasound image, generate a guide image for guiding at least one of a scanning region or a scanning direction of an ultrasound probe used for capturing the ultrasound image according to an effective width, which is a region in which transmission and reception of an ultrasonic wave are possible, of the ultrasound probe, and perform projection processing of causing the guide image to be projected onto an opposite side of the compression member from a compression side of the breast by controlling the projection unit.

2 . The medical image acquisition guidance device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor is configured to further perform processing of storing the ultrasound image obtained by scanning using the ultrasound probe and at least one of the scanning region or the scanning direction in the scanning for obtaining the ultrasound image in association with each other.

3 . The medical image acquisition guidance device according to claim 2 ,

wherein the processor is configured to specify at least one of an actual scanning region or an actual scanning direction using a detection result of a position sensor that detects a position of the ultrasound probe.

4 . The medical image acquisition guidance device according to claim 2 ,

wherein the processor is configured to

in a case in which the ultrasound image is stored in association with the scanning region, further perform first display processing of displaying the radiation image corresponding to the ultrasound image together with a scanning region image which is an image showing the scanning region, and

in a case in which the scanning region shown in the scanning region image displayed by the first display processing is designated by a user, further perform second display processing of displaying the ultrasound image corresponding to the scanning region.

5 . The medical image acquisition guidance device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor is configured to, in a case in which scanning using the ultrasound probe is performed a plurality of times to capture a single ultrasound image, decide the scanning regions corresponding to scans adjacent to each other such that the adjacent regions overlap each other within a predetermined range.

6 . The medical image acquisition guidance device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the guide image is an image including at least one of a line, a figure, a mark, or a character.

7 . The medical image acquisition guidance device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor is configured to control the projection unit so as to project the guide image onto the opposite side of the compression member from the compression side of the breast and onto a region excluding the scanning region of the ultrasound probe.

8 . The medical image acquisition guidance device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor is configured to decide the scanning region using at least one of a width of a housing of the ultrasound probe, the effective width of the ultrasound probe, a width of the compression member, or an acquisition region of an image showing the breast in the radiation image.

9 . The medical image acquisition guidance device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor is configured to acquire the effective width at any one of a timing at which the medical image acquisition guidance device is powered on, a timing at which the ultrasound probe is attached, or a timing at which a preset for acquiring an image showing the breast is selected.

10 . A medical image acquisition guidance system comprising:

the medical image acquisition guidance device according to claim 1 ; and

a display that displays the radiation image and the ultrasound image acquired in accordance with the processing performed by the medical image acquisition guidance device.

11 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program executable by a computer to execute a process comprising:

performing, in a case in which a radiation image and an ultrasound image of a breast in a state of being compressed by a compression member are captured, in capturing the ultrasound image, generate a guide image for guiding at least one of a scanning region or a scanning direction of an ultrasound probe used for capturing the ultrasound image according to an effective width, which is a region in which transmission and reception of an ultrasonic wave are possible, of the ultrasound probe, and perform projection processing of causing the guide image to be projected onto an opposite side of the compression member from a compression side of the breast by controlling a projection unit.