Patent ID: 11903771
Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. An ultrasound (US) system, comprising:
a US scanner and a US probe operatively connected to the US scanner; and
at least one electronic processor programmed to:
control the US scanner and US probe to acquire a series of preoperative US images of a tumor and surrounding blood vessels in a region of interest (ROI) of a patient;
provide a graphical user interface (GUI) which displays the preoperative US images of the tumor and the surrounding blood vessels in the ROI of the patient and via which the preoperative US images of the tumor and the surrounding blood vessels in the ROI of the patient are manually labeled with contours of the tumor and the surrounding blood vessels in the ROI;
tune a trained neural network (NN) for the patient using only the labeled preoperative US images of the tumor and the surrounding blood vessels in the ROI of the patient to generate a patient-tuned trained neural network;
perform, during a surgical procedure, live imaging of the tumor and the surrounding blood vessels in the ROI of the patient of which the preoperative US images of the tumor and the surrounding blood vessels are taken by controlling the US scanner and US probe to acquire live US images of the tumor and the surrounding blood vessels in the ROI of the patient;
input the live US images of the tumor and the surrounding blood vessels in the ROI of the patient to the patient-tuned trained NN to output live contours of the tumor and the surrounding blood vessels; and
control a display device to display the live US images of the tumor and the surrounding blood vessels in the ROI of the patient with the live contours superimposed.