Patent ID: 11900593
Assignee: FUJIFILM SONOSITE, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 11:
12. A method implemented by a computing device for blood vessel identification, the method comprising:
determining, with a neural network implemented at least partially in hardware of the computing device, bounding containers of blood vessels in ultrasound images;
determining compression amounts of the blood vessels based on the bounding containers;
assigning, with the neural network, classifications of a vein classification or an artery classification to the blood vessels in the ultrasound images; and
determining labels for the blood vessels based on the compression amounts and the classifications, the labels indicating the blood vessels as a vein or an artery, wherein the determining the compression amounts of the blood vessels includes:
determining first lengths of the bounding containers;
determining second lengths of the bounding containers; and
determining ratios of the first lengths to the second lengths.