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

Claim 10:
11. A computer-implemented method for generating ultrasound data in respect of an anatomical body being scanned, the method comprising:
receiving a time sequence of at least 2D and/or 3D ultrasound images of the anatomical body;
storing a model of the anatomical body which comprises structures of interest of the anatomical body, and storing a predetermined scan protocol specifying sequence of types of an ultrasound scan of the structures of interest, the sequence having a fixed order;
registering the received ultrasound images with the model thereby identifying the structures of interest within the ultrasound images;
identifying target images for the types of scan of the identified structures of interest specified in the protocol; and
compiling 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.