Patent ID: 11890142
Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 8:
9. A system, comprising:
a display device;
an ultrasound probe;
a memory storing instructions; and
a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and when executing the instructions, configured to:
acquire, via the ultrasound probe, a B-mode image of a region of interest (ROI) of a patient;
acquire, via the ultrasound probe, an elastography image of the ROI of the patient, the elastography image including an elastography overlay on the B-mode image, the elastography overlay including elastography information of tissue imaged in the underlying B-mode image and measured by the ultrasound probe;
display the elastography image to a user on the display device;
receive a request to determine an A/B ratio of the ROI;
in response to the request, generate a processed elastography image that includes the B-mode image and an adjusted-gain elastography overlay on the B-mode image, wherein the adjusted-gain elastography overlay of the processed elastography image has a different gain than the elastography overlay of the elastography image that is displayed to the user;
enter the B-mode image and the processed elastography image as inputs to an A/B ratio model that is trained to output the A/B ratio of the ROI based on the B-mode image and the processed elastography image; and
output the A/B ratio for display on the display device, wherein the A/B ratio comprises a width and/or an area of the ROI in the elastography overlay relative to a width and/or an area of the ROI in the B-mode image.