Patent ID: 11872077
Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 15:
16. A method of controlling an ultrasound diagnostic system comprising:
storing a first set of ultrasound images of past tests for any patients including a first patient in a database, where each ultrasound image of the first set of ultrasound images of the past tests have attached patient IDs corresponding to the any patients and include at least one ultrasound image on which an intima-media thickness measurement of a vessel is performed in any test parts;
transmitting an ultrasound beam from an array transducer;
receiving an ultrasound echo;
creating a first ultrasound image including a first vessel in a first test part of the first patient of a current test based on the ultrasound echo;
attaching a first patient ID corresponding to the first patient to the first ultrasound image;
measuring an intima-media thickness of the first vessel based on the first ultrasound image;
determining, for each ultrasound image of the first set of ultrasound images of the past tests stored in the database, whether a first condition representing that the ultrasound image has the first patient ID is satisfied, whether a second condition representing that the measurement of the intima-media thickness is performed on the ultrasound image is satisfied, and whether a third condition representing that the ultrasound image includes the first test part is satisfied;
determining and attaching priorities corresponding to the each ultrasound image of the first set of ultrasound images stored in the database where higher priority is attached to at least one first ultrasound image of the first set of ultrasound images satisfying more conditions among the first condition, the second condition and the third condition;
displaying the first set of ultrasound images in a first arrangement order which is determined based on a decreasing priority;
receiving a selection of at least one image of the at least one ultrasound image from the database on which the measurement of the intima-media thickness is performed, from the first set of ultrasound images by a user via an input device;
receiving a report generation instruction from the user via the input device;
upon accepting the report generation instructions, automatically creating a single test report image including the first ultrasound image, the at least one image selected by the user, the measurement result of the intima-media thickness corresponding to the first ultrasound image and at least one measurement result of the intima-media thickness corresponding to the at least one image selected by the user.