Quality indicators for collection of and automated measurement on ultrasound images

US10706520B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Butterfly Network, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Alex Rothberg · New York, US
• Igor Lovchinsky · Cambridge, US
• Jimmy Jia · Burlington, US
• Tomer Gafner · Great Neck, US
• Matthew de Jonge · Burlington, US
• Jonathan M. Rothberg · Paradise, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 7, 2019
• Grant date: Jul 7, 2020
• Expiry date: May 7, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06T2207/30168
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Aspects of the technology described herein relate to techniques for calculating, during imaging, a quality of a sequence of images collected during the imaging. Calculating the quality of the sequence of images may include calculating a probability that a medical professional would use a given image for clinical evaluation and a confidence that an automated analysis segmentation performed on the given image is correct. Techniques described herein also include receiving a trigger to perform an automatic measurement on a sequence of images, calculating a quality of the sequence of images, determining whether the quality of the sequence of images exceeds a threshold quality, and performing the automatic measurement on the sequence of images based on determining that the quality of the sequence of images exceeds the threshold quality.