Patent ID: 11944498
Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 18:
19. A method of controlling an ultrasound diagnostic system including an ultrasound diagnostic device that transmits an ultrasound beam toward a subject from an array transducer, and receives an ultrasound echo from the subject to create a plurality of ultrasound images, and a workstation connected to the ultrasound diagnostic device, the method comprising:
storing a plurality of ultrasound images in past diagnosis of a plurality of subjects as past images;
determining a current image that is the ultrasound image to be stored among moving image data made of the plurality of ultrasound images created in a current diagnosis; and
in a case where a routine test in which a plurality of parts of the subject are sequentially subjected to ultrasound diagnosis in accordance with a determined procedure is performed, and in a case where information on the subject is input,
making a workstation-side display unit of the workstation perform a first display in which a plurality of past images in a past routine test of the subject that are stored are displayed as a thumbnail list and then perform a second display in which one past image and a current image which is determined in the ultrasound diagnostic device with respect to a part corresponding to the one past image are displayed side by side on a past image region and a current image region adjacent to each other, in an arrangement order of the plurality of past images displayed as the thumbnail list in the first display,
making the workstation-side display unit display a next past image in the arrangement order of the first display on the past image region in the second display after the second display of the current image corresponding to the one past image is performed, and
making the current image region blank until a current image corresponding to the next past image is determined by the ultrasound diagnostic device and displayed on the current image region from a time point when the next past image is displayed on the past image region,
each time a display in the past image region is updated according to the arrangement order, the blank and a current image corresponding to a past image being displayed in the past image region, are displayed alternately in the current image region.