Systems and methods for ultrasound examination
View Patent ↗The present disclosure provides a method for ultrasound examination. The method may include obtaining, from a user terminal, an operation instruction of an operator input via a user interface implemented on the user terminal, the operation instruction for confirming or adjusting an initial adjustment mode of the scanning parameter; determining, based on the operation instruction of the operator, a target adjustment mode of the scanning parameter; and configuring the ultrasound imaging scanner based on the target adjustment mode.
1 . A system, comprising:
at least one storage medium including a set of instructions;
at least one processor in communication with the at least one storage medium, wherein when executing the set of instructions, the at least one processor is directed to cause the system to perform operations including:
obtaining feature information of each of at least a portion of multiple scanning parameters, the feature information of each of the at least the portion of the multiple scanning parameters including a count of adjustment levels of the scanning parameter and an adjustment frequency of the scanning parameter, wherein each of the adjustment levels of the scanning parameter refers to a degree, a value, a range, or a state that the scanning parameter is able to be adjusted to, the adjustment frequency of the scanning parameter indicates a count or times of the scanning parameter that has been adjusted in ultrasound examinations over a certain period of time;
automatically determining a target configuration of an adjustment mode of each of at least a portion of the multiple scanning parameters based on the feature information of each of at least a portion of the multiple scanning parameters, wherein the target configuration of the adjustment mode of the scanning parameter includes a type and an arrangement of the adjustment mode on a user interface, the type of the adjustment mode of the scanning parameter includes a probe-based adjustment mode, an adjustment mode implemented on a control panel of an ultrasound imaging scanner, an adjustment mode implemented on a touch screen of the ultrasound imaging scanner, an eye interaction-based adjustment mode, or a gesture-based adjustment mode, the arrangement of the adjustment mode includes a distribution position of the adjustment mode on a component of the user interface; and
configuring an ultrasound imaging device based on the target configuration.
2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include:
providing one or more candidate configurations of the adjustment mode of a scanning parameter based on feature information of the scanning parameter; and
sending the one or more candidate configurations of the adjustment mode to a user terminal of an operator of the ultrasound imaging device, wherein the target configuration is determined based on the one or more candidate configurations according to an operation instruction of the operator.
3 . The system of claim 2 , wherein the type of adjustment mode of each of the one or more candidate configurations include a probe-based adjustment mode in response to determining, by a processing device, that the adjustment frequency of the scanning parameter is greater than a first frequency threshold, and an adjustment mode implemented on a control panel-based adjustment mode in response to determining, by the processing device, that the adjustment frequency of the scanning parameter is smaller than the first frequency threshold and greater than a second frequency threshold.
4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the adjustment mode using the adjustment control on the touch screen of the ultrasound imaging device includes using one of an excitation type adjustment control, a switch type adjustment control, a tile type adjustment control, a gear adjustment control, and a sliding type adjustment control;
the adjustment mode including using the excitation type adjustment control or the switch type adjustment control in response to determining that the count of the adjustment levels of the scanning parameter is less than a first count threshold, and the excitation type adjustment control or the switch type adjustment control activating or turning off a corresponding function of the scanning parameter by clicking or other operations; or
the adjustment mode including using the tile type adjustment control in response to determining that the count of the adjustment levels of the scanning parameter exceeds the first count threshold and is less than a second count threshold, and the tile type adjustment control displaying options in tile types; or
the adjustment mode including using the gear adjustment control in response to determining that the count of the adjustment levels of the scanning parameter exceeds the second count threshold and is less than a third count threshold, and the gear adjustment control being used to increase or decrease the scanning parameter; or
the adjustment mode including using the sliding type adjustment control in response to determining that the count of the adjustment levels of the scanning parameter exceeds the third count threshold.
5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein a same entity is used to adjust the multiple scanning parameters in different adjustment modes, and the different adjustment modes including a B mode, a C mode, and a PW mode.
6 . The system of claim 1 , wherein an adjustment control of a scanning parameter with an adjustment frequency greater than a frequency threshold and a count of adjustment levels greater than a quantity threshold is displayed on a homepage and/or a target position of a parameter adjustment region in a target mode, and the target position is a position on a display interface.
7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further include:
classifying the at least a portion of the multiple scanning parameters into one or more groups based on the feature information of each of the multiple scanning parameters;
determining the target configuration based on the feature information of scanning parameters in a same group, wherein the one or more groups includes at least one of a first group, a second group, a third group, or a fourth group, the first group including scanning parameters including a depth, a dynamic range, a scale, and a gain, the second group including scanning parameters including a freezing, an image storage, a measuring, a harmonic, a frame rate, and a frame frequency, the third group including scanning parameters including an automatic optimization, a spatial composition, a fusion imaging, and a layout, and the fourth group including scanning parameters including a gray scale chart and a time gain compensation (TGC);
an adjustment frequency of each scanning parameter in the first group exceeds a frequency threshold and an adjustment level of each scanning parameter in the first group exceeds a count threshold, the type of the adjustment mode for a scanning parameter in the first group includes an adjustment mode using a knob implemented on the control panel of the ultrasound imaging device;
an adjustment frequency of each scanning parameter in the second group exceeds the frequency threshold and an adjustment level of each scanning parameter in the second group is less than the count threshold, the type of the adjustment mode for a scanning parameter in the second group includes an adjustment mode using a key implemented on the control panel of the ultrasound imaging device;
an adjustment frequency of each scanning parameter in the third group is less than the frequency threshold and an adjustment level of each scanning parameter in the third group is less than the count threshold, the type of the adjustment mode for the scanning parameter in the third group includes an adjustment mode using an excitation type adjustment control or a switch type adjustment control implemented on the touch screen of the ultrasound imaging device;
an adjustment frequency of each scanning parameter in the fourth group is less than the frequency threshold and an adjustment level of each scanning parameter in the fourth group exceeds the count threshold, the type of the adjustment mode for the scanning parameter in the fourth group includes an adjustment mode using a tile type adjustment control, a gear adjustment control, or a sliding type adjustment control implemented on the touch screen of the ultrasound imaging device.
8 . A system, comprising:
at least one storage medium including a set of instructions;
at least one processor in communication with the at least one storage medium, wherein when executing the set of instructions, the at least one processor is directed to cause the system to perform operations including:
obtaining, from a user terminal, an operation instruction of an operator input via a user interface implemented on the user terminal, the operation instruction being for configuring an adjustment mode of a scanning parameter of an ultrasound imaging device;
automatically determining, based on the operation instruction of the operator, a target configuration of the adjustment mode of the scanning parameter, wherein the target configuration of the adjustment mode of the scanning parameter includes a type and an arrangement of the adjustment mode on the user interface, the type of the adjustment mode of the scanning parameter includes a probe-based adjustment mode, an adjustment mode implemented on a control panel of the ultrasound imaging scanner, an adjustment mode implemented on a touch screen of the ultrasound imaging scanner, an eye interaction-based adjustment mode, and a gesture-based adjustment mode, the arrangement of the adjustment mode includes a distribution position of the adjustment mode on a component of the ultrasound imaging scanner or system; and
configuring the ultrasound imaging device based on the target configuration.
9 . A system, comprising:
an ultrasound imaging device; and
a user terminal in communication with the ultrasound imaging device, the user terminal including a user interface implemented on a touch screen, the user interface representing one of a workbench interface in a target configuration or a function module interface in response to receipt of an operation instruction for entering inputted by an operator, wherein the target configuration of the workbench interface includes one or more functions of each of different function modules of the ultrasound imaging device, the workbench interface is configured to facilitate an interaction between the operator and an ultrasound imaging scanner to cause or facilitate the ultrasound imaging scanner to perform one or more functions from each of different function modules, the workbench interface includes an integration of functions from the different function modules, the workbench interface includes an integration of functions from a clinic scene switch module, a probe switching module, a scanning parameter adjustment module, and a measurement module, the function module interface is configured to facilitate an interaction between the operator and the ultrasound imaging scanner to cause or facilitate a function module corresponding to the function module interface to perform one or more functions of the function module.
10 . The system of claim 9 , wherein the target configuration includes one or more types of the one or more functions of each of different function modules of the ultrasound imaging device and/or an arrangement of the one or more functions in the workbench interface.
11 . The system of claim 9 , wherein the system further includes:
at least one storage medium including a set of instructions;
at least one processor in communication with the at least one storage medium, wherein when executing the set of instructions, the at least one processor is directed to cause the system to perform operations including:
determining one or more candidate configurations of the workbench interface, each of the one or more candidate configurations including one or more candidate functions and/or a candidate arrangement of the one or more candidate functions on the workbench interface, wherein the one or more candidate configurations are determined based on at least one of operators, historical operations of the operators, clinical scenes, scanning subjects, or scanning modes for the scanning subjects; and
providing the one or more candidate configurations to the user interface, wherein the target configuration is determined based on the one or more candidate configurations; wherein the user interface represents a parameter adjustment interface, the parameter adjustment interface includes a mode display region, a mode switch region, and a parameter adjustment region; the mode display region is configured to display a switchable mode supported by the ultrasound imaging scanner, the switchable mode includes a contrast, a B mode, a C mode, a CW mode, or a PW mode, the mode switch region is configured to display an entrance of other modes allowed to enter in a current scanning mode, and the parameter adjustment region is configured to display the scanning parameter that are allowed to be adjusted in the current scanning mode corresponding to the mode display region.
12 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the operations further include:
in response to receiving an operation instruction for a workbench interface configuration from the operator, displaying the one or more candidate configurations; and
in response to receiving an operation instruction for configuration selection from the operator, determining the target configuration from the one or more candidate configurations, the target configuration is a selected candidate configuration or determined by modifying the selected candidate configuration of the operator according to an operation instruction for configuration modification from the operator.
13 . The system of claim 9 , wherein different clinical scenes, or different scanning subjects, or different scanning modes for the scanning subjects correspond to different target configurations.
14 . The system of claim 9 , wherein the workbench interface includes a navigation region and a control display region, the navigation region is configured to display labels of the different function modules, and the control display region is configured to display a control of each function from the different function modules.
15 . The system of claim 9 , wherein the workbench interface includes a control configured to trigger a first operation interface for workbench interface selection to be entered, the first operation interface including multiple first controls, each of the multiple first controls corresponding to one of multiple workbench interfaces, each of the multiple workbench interfaces corresponding to one of multiple examination tasks.
16 . The system of claim 9 , wherein the workbench interface includes a control configured to trigger a second operation interface for workbench interface configuration to be entered, the second operation interface provides multiple candidate configurations of the workbench interface and/or the workbench interface includes a control configured to trigger a third operation interface representing a virtual keyboard to be entered.
17 . The system of claim 14 , wherein the control display region includes multiple controls for selecting scanning modes, the target configuration includes function controls correspond to the one or more functions of each of the different functions modules under a target scanning mode, and the scanning modes refer to a scanning mode used by the ultrasound imaging scanner for the ultrasound examination, and the scanning modes include a contrast, a B mode, a C mode, a CW mode, and a PW mode.
18 . The system of claim 9 , wherein the workbench interface includes a taskbar, and the taskbar includes multiple examination items and the target configuration includes function controls corresponding to the one or more functions of each of different functions modules under a target examination item and/or the workbench interface includes a taskbar, and the taskbar includes multiple examination tasks and the target configuration includes function controls corresponding to the one or more functions of each of different functions modules under a target examination task.
19 . The system of claim 9 , wherein the different function modules of the ultrasound imaging device incudes a parameter adjustment module, and the one or more functions includes a parameter adjustment function of multiple scanning parameters, the workbench interface includes a parameter adjustment region including multiple adjustment controls of the multiple scanning parameters, each of the multiple adjustment controls indicating a target adjustment mode of a scanning parameter.
20 . The system of claim 9 , wherein the user interface is configured to switch between the function module interface for a parameter adjustment function and the workbench interface, the function module interface for the parameter adjustment function represents adjustment modes of multiple scanning parameters, an adjustment mode of one of the multiple scanning parameters is in a target configuration determined based on feature information of the scanning parameter.