Patent ID: 9743911
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: A61B,G01S

Claim:
1. A method for automatic control of image quality in ultrasound imaging of an object using an ultrasound system, comprising: transmitting/receiving ultrasound image signals into the object/from the object using selected system parameter sets of the ultrasound system, wherein the ultrasound system has a number of different system parameter sets based on an image ranking measure reflecting at least one subjective expert opinion of a pre-defined set of ultrasound images, and wherein the image ranking measure is based on: processing the sets of signals into ultrasound images, each image being associated with a system parameter set of the number of different system parameter sets; analyzing the images with respect to at least one image quality feature to determine at least one image quality metric for each image; analyzing the respective image quality metric for each image to identify an image associated with a highest image quality metric; selecting the system parameter set used for generating the image associated with the highest image quality metric as system parameter set for further ultrasound imaging of the object; and repeating one or more of the steps transmitting/receiving, processing, analyzing and selecting until at least one predetermined quality condition is satisfied, or until an operator manually terminates the process.