Patent ID: 11883231
Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A system for generating ultrasound data in respect of an anatomical body being scanned, comprising:
an input for receiving a time sequence of 2D and/or 3D ultrasound images of the anatomical body;
a memory which stores a model of the anatomical body which comprises structures of interest of the anatomical body, and stores a predetermined scan protocol specifying a sequence of types of an ultrasound scan of the structures of interest, the sequence having a fixed order;
and a controller which is configured to:
register the received ultrasound images with the model thereby to identify the structures of interest within the ultrasound images;
identify target images for the types of scan of the identified structures of interest specified in the protocol; and
compile the sequence with the fixed order, specified in the protocol, of the target images, the compiled sequence taking the form of a video sequence, the video sequence comprising video snippets each of which is for one of the structures of interest and comprises a respective best image as a frame within the video snippet, the video snippets assembled according to the fixed order of the scan protocol.