Patent ID: 11911214
Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 9:
10. A system for ultrasound imaging, comprising:
a hand-held ultrasound probe including a transducer array of transducer elements; and
a controller coupled to the hand-held ultrasound probe and configured to:
access information of a target scan plane identified during a prior imaging session, the target scan plane including an anatomical feature in a patient;
instruct, during an imaging session, a patient to move the hand-held ultrasound probe to acquire a plurality of ultrasound images;
instruct, during the imaging session, the patient to move the hand-held ultrasound probe to acquire a plurality of ultrasound images corresponding to a plurality of scan planes;
automatically identify, via machine learning, a scan plane of the plurality of scan planes corresponding to the target scan plane;
store an ultrasound image, of the plurality of ultrasound images, acquired at the target scan plane; and
send the ultrasound image to a remote computing device configured to automatically determine changes to the anatomical feature depicted in the ultrasound image of the target scan plane relative to at least one reference image acquired at the target scan plane during the prior imaging session.