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

Claim 0:
1. A method for ultrasound imaging of a patient, comprising:
during an initial imaging session,
scanning the patient to acquire initial ultrasound image data;
identifying, in the acquired initial ultrasound image data, a target scan plane including an anatomical feature within the patient; and
storing at least a subset of the acquired initial ultrasound image data as a reference image acquired at the target scan plane; and

during a subsequent imaging session,
instructing the patient to move an ultrasound probe to acquire subsequent ultrasound image data;
automatically identifying, via a first computing device using image recognition trained via machine learning, the target scan plane in the subsequent ultrasound image data acquired by the patient during the subsequent imaging session;
storing, on the first computing device, at least a subset of the subsequent ultrasound image data acquired during the subsequent imaging session or additional ultrasound image data acquired by the patient during the subsequent imaging session after identifying the target scan plane as a subsequent image acquired at the target scan plane; and
sending the subsequent image to a second computing device configured to automatically determine changes to the anatomical feature in the target scan plane by comparing the reference image to the subsequent image.