Patent ID: 11911213
Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A method for estimating motion of an ultrasound probe, comprising the steps of:
acquiring a sequence of ultrasound images while moving the ultrasound probe relative to an imaged volume;
for the ultrasound images of the sequence acquired at different time intervals, extracting motion data of the ultrasound probe from the respective changes across the ultrasound images of the sequence;
acquiring sensed motion data from one or more motion sensors while acquiring the sequence of ultrasound images;
localizing a current probe position with respect to the other images in the sequence and internal anatomy of a patient based on both the motion data and the sensed motion data; and
providing feedback to a user conveying information regarding the motion of the ultrasound probe based on both the motion data and the sensed motion data, wherein the feedback comprises labeling of a feature of interest that is preserved between ultrasound images of the sequence.