Patent ID: 9144403
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: A61B,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method of characterizing the pathological response of a tissue to a treatment plan, comprising: at a computing system in communication with an ultrasound system, obtaining a set of acoustic data, from the ultrasound system, associated with a set of time points spanning at least a portion of the treatment plan; at the computing system, generating a set of sequential morphology renderings of the tissue based on the set of acoustic data, wherein each morphology rendering in the set of sequential morphology renderings corresponds to a time point of the set of time points; at the computing system for each morphology rendering of the set of sequential morphology renderings, generating a quantitative value representative of a combination of acoustic speed with at least one of acoustic reflection and acoustic attenuation, thus generating a set of quantitative values representative of the combination and spanning the set of time points; at the computing system determining a trend of the quantitative value from the set of quantitative values, wherein determining the trend comprises calculating a rate of change of the quantitative value; at the computing system generating a predicted response of the tissue to the treatment plan based on the trend of the quantitative value representative of the combination of acoustic speed with at least one of acoustic reflection and acoustic attenuation, thereby characterizing the pathological response of the tissue to the treatment plan; and at an output module of a user interface device in communication with the computing system, informing an entity of the predicted response, thereby enabling assessment of the treatment plan.