Patent ID: 11911214
Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 14:
15. A system for ultrasonically scanning a patient, comprising:
a hand-held ultrasound probe including a transducer array of transducer elements; and
a controller configured to:
during an initial imaging session,
receive identification of a target scan plane including an anatomical feature within the patient; and
store a reference image acquired at the target scan plane including the anatomical feature; and

during a subsequent imaging session,
instruct the patient to move the hand-held ultrasound probe to acquire a plurality of ultrasound images corresponding to a plurality of scan planes;
automatically identify, using image recognition trained via machine learning, a scan plane of the plurality of scan planes corresponding to the target scan plane;
store an ultrasound image, of the plurality of ultrasound images, acquired at the target scan plane; and
send the ultrasound image acquired at the target scan plane to a remote computing device configured to automatically determine changes to the anatomical feature in the target scan plane by comparing the ultrasound image to the reference image.