Patent ID: 8756033

Claim:
A diagnostic imaging system provided with a probe for detecting, from an examinee, an acoustic wave for generating an electric signal, and an image processing section for converting the generated signal into image information, the system comprising: a region detection unit configured to detect a specific region from an ultrasonic image of the examinee, wherein the specific region is not a target region to be medically inspected; a measuring unit configured to measure a relative position of the probe with respect to the examinee, based on a detection result from the region detection unit; a control amount calculation unit configured to calculate an amount of control of the position of the probe, based on a measurement by the measuring unit; a display control unit configured to control a display unit to display, in a case that the region detection unit detects the specific region, information for guiding the probe to the target region, based on the amount of control calculated by the control amount calculation unit; and a generation unit configured to generate, in a case that the specific region is not detected, a signal for moving the probe to search for the specific region.