Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic device is provided in an examination room, and a remote device is provided in another room. The remote device has a conversion unit that converts advice (voice) from an advisor into a character string. Data indicating the character string are transmitted from the remote device to the ultrasonic diagnostic device. The character string is displayed on a display device of the ultrasonic diagnostic device. An advisor image is also displayed on the display device.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes a wireless communication unit and a control unit. The wireless communication unit is connected to a communication line via a wireless relay device, communicates with an information terminal via the communication line, and transmits ultrasonic image information to the information terminal. The control unit selects a shared group ID, which is one of a plurality of registered group IDs registered in advance, according to an operation of a user. The control unit, together with the wireless communication unit, transmits the shared group ID to the wireless relay device. The wireless relay device receives an affiliated group ID from the information terminal to establish wireless communication with the information terminal for which the affiliated group ID matching the shared group ID is received.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a wireless communication unit connected to a communication line via a wireless relay device and configured to communicate with an information terminal via the communication line; and a control unit configured to control the wireless communication unit. The control unit reads a patient ID for specifying a patient, and transmits, together with the wireless communication unit, the patient ID to the wireless relay device. The wireless relay device receives a collation signal from the information terminal, and establishes wireless communication with the information terminal when the collation signal includes the patient ID. The control unit executes, together with the wireless communication unit, image transmission processing of transmitting ultrasonic image information, via the communication line, to the information terminal when the patient ID is in the collation signal transmitted from the information terminal to the wireless relay device.

Abstract: A display frame data array is transferred from an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus to a diagnosis assisting server. The display frame data array is analyzed in the diagnosis assisting server, and a diagnosis assisting data array is generated. The diagnosis assisting data array is transferred from the diagnosis assisting server to the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus. A display processing unit combines the display frame data array and the diagnosis assisting data array while synchronizing the data arrays.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is provided with a control unit that transmits to an information processing apparatus ultrasonic diagnostic data generated by transmission and reception of ultrasound, and acquires from the information processing apparatus external processing data in which the ultrasonic diagnostic data have been subjected to processing. The control unit executes a diagnostic apparatus interface program as an interface program common to a plurality of applications installed to the information processing apparatus, and constructs a diagnostic apparatus interface. The diagnostic apparatus interface performs, when the information processing apparatus is caused to execute an execution application that is one of the plurality of the applications, transmission of the ultrasonic diagnostic data and reception of the external processing data with respect to the execution application.

Abstract: An information processing unit included in an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus executes image transfer processing and display processing below. The image transfer processing is processing of successively transferring ultrasonic image data successively generated as time elapses, to an external processing apparatus. The display processing is processing of successively receiving as time elapses externally processed image data transmitted from the external processing apparatus, and causing a display apparatus to display a real-time image in accordance with the externally processed image data. The information processing unit acquires a processing burden value (information indicating a processing ability) of the external processing apparatus from the external processing apparatus, and sets a transfer rate in the image transfer processing in accordance with the processing ability.

Abstract: When a basic mode is selected, a basic processing block in an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus operates in real time, to generate a first display image array, and the first display image array is displayed on a display. When an extended mode is selected, necessary information is transferred from the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus to an external information processing apparatus, and an extended processing block in the external information processing apparatus operates in real time, to generate a second display image array. The second display image array is displayed on the display.

Abstract: A display frame data array is transferred from an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus to a diagnosis assisting server. The display frame data array is analyzed in the diagnosis assisting server, and a diagnosis assisting data array is generated. The diagnosis assisting data array is transferred from the diagnosis assisting server to the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus. A display processing unit combines the display frame data array and the diagnosis assisting data array while synchronizing the data arrays.

Abstract: An ultrasonic diagnostic device is provided in an examination room, and a remote device is provided in another room. The remote device has a conversion unit that converts advice (voice) from an advisor into a character string. Data indicating the character string are transmitted from the remote device to the ultrasonic diagnostic device. The character string is displayed on a display device of the ultrasonic diagnostic device. An advisor image is also displayed on the display device.

Abstract: A tomographic image includes a mammary gland image, a greater pectoral muscle image, and a boundary image. A plurality of search paths are set for the tomographic image. In each search path, a boundary search is executed from a deep spot toward a shallow spot. A region of interest is set so as to include the mammary gland image on the basis of a plurality of boundary points. An image portion in the region of interest is an image analysis target.

Abstract: A tomographic image includes a mammary gland image, a greater pectoral muscle image, and a boundary image. A plurality of search paths are set for the tomographic image. In each search path, a boundary search is executed from a deep spot toward a shallow spot. A region of interest is set so as to include the mammary gland image on the basis of a plurality of boundary points. An image portion in the region of interest is an image analysis target.

Abstract: In order to improve the continuity of the image qualities in the minor-axis direction of plural sets of elastic frame data that constitute elastic volume data and generate a high-quality 3-dimensional elastic image, regarding each elastic frame data constituting elastic volume data, a noise frame interpolation unit subjects plural sets of elastic frame data including said elastic frame data and adjacent in a swing direction to synthesis processing, generates the elastic volume data from the synthesized plural sets of elastic frame data, and volume renders the elastic volume data to generate a 3-dimensional elastic image. The noise frame interpolation unit stores plural sets of elastic volume data, subjects plural sets of elastic frame data at corresponding swing angle positions among the stored plural sets of elastic volume data to synthesis processing to generate synthetic elastic frame data and elastic volume data from the synthesized plural sets of elastic frame data.

Abstract: Provided is an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus that constructs and displays a 3-dimensional elastic image showing the hardness or softness of a biological tissue of an object to be examined, and a method of displaying an ultrasonic image. The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is characterized by being provided with an elastic image constructing unit (24) that constructs 2-dimensional elastic image data on the basis of the strain or elasticity modulus acquired by the elasticity information calculating unit (23), an elastic volume data creating unit (26) that creates elastic volume data from plural sets of the 2-dimensional elastic image data, and 3-dimensional elastic image constructing unit (28) that constructs a 3-dimensional elastic image from the elastic volume data.

Abstract: The ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus including a cross-section region image constituting unit configured to constitute a cross-section region image at a diagnosis portion of a diagnosing object through an ultrasound probe, an elasticity information calculating unit configured to calculate elasticity information indicating hardness, an elasticity image constituting unit configured to constitute an elasticity image based on the elasticity information calculated at the elasticity information calculating unit, and an image display unit configured to display the cross-section region image and the elasticity image, includes a temporal variation analyzing unit configured to analyze temporal variation at respective measurement points from the elasticity information calculated at the elasticity information calculating unit and a temporal variation image constituting unit configured to constitute a temporal variation image based on the temporal variation analyzed at the temporal variation analyzing unit, and the image di

Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus provided with: an ultrasonic probe which transmits/receives ultrasonic waves to/from an object while being in contact with the object; a transmission/reception unit which, in a process in which pressing force applied to the object by the ultrasonic probe is changed and the tomographic position at which the ultrasonic waves are transmitted/received to/from the object is moved in a short axis direction, periodically transmits/receives the ultrasonic waves to/from the object, performs reception processing on a reflection echo signal from the object, and measures RF signal frame data at the tomographic position; a displacement measurement unit which, on the basis of two pieces of RF signal frame data, between which the difference in measurement time falls within a set range, selected from among multiple pieces of RF signal frame data sequentially measured by the transmission/reception unit, finds the displacement of a living tissue at the tomographic position and se

Abstract: The ultrasonic diagnosis apparatus including a cross-section region image constituting unit configured to constitute a cross-section region image at a diagnosis portion of a diagnosing object through an ultrasound probe, an elasticity information calculating unit configured to calculate elasticity information indicating hardness, an elasticity image constituting unit configured to constitute an elasticity image based on the elasticity information calculated at the elasticity information calculating unit, and an image display unit configured to display the cross-section region image and the elasticity image, includes a temporal variation analyzing unit configured to analyze temporal variation at respective measurement points from the elasticity information calculated at the elasticity information calculating unit and a temporal variation image constituting unit configured to constitute a temporal variation image based on the temporal variation analyzed at the temporal variation analyzing unit, and the image di

Abstract: In order to three-dimensionally quantify the elastic information indicating the hardness or softness of tissue of an object with a simple operation, two three-dimensional regions of interest are set on a displayed elastic rendering image. A three-dimensional distortion ratio measuring unit 52 calculates a ratio between elastic information in the set first three-dimensional region of interest and elastic information in the set second three-dimensional region of interest and displays the ratio on an image display device 13.

Abstract: A method for generating a region of interest (ROI) wherein in setting ROIs in biological tissues to be compared, burden on a subject can be reduced and the reproducibility of elasticity measurement improved, including: setting candidate points in an arbitrary designated region in a notable tissue in a contrast image of an object designated by an input device; determining partial differential values of pixel values in a two-dimensional direction in the contrast image and thus detecting a tissue boundary; acquiring a shortest distance between the detected tissue boundary and each point, and setting a circle or polygonal region inscribed in the circle having the maximum shortest distance as a radius around the candidate point having the maximum shortest distance as a region of interest; and imaging the region of interest and superimposing it on the contrast image and displaying it on an image display unit.

Abstract: In an ultrasonic diagnostic device, on the basis of a displacement distribution in a 2D direction, a locus related to displacement in a discretionary region of an ultrasonic image is formed. The ultrasonic diagnostic device includes: an image forming unit (tomographic image forming unit and elastic image forming unit) for forming an ultrasonic image of a diagnosis location on a subject via an ultrasonic probe; an image display for displaying the ultrasonic image; and a locus forming unit (display parameter calculation unit, display data storing unit, 2D locus creating unit) that, on the basis of a displacement distribution in a 2D direction in a discretionary region of the ultrasonic image, forms a locus related to displacement in such region, and that display the formed locus on the image display.

Abstract: Provided is an ultrasonic diagnostic device that improves the frame rate (or volume rate), is resistant to movement, and is capable of constructing ultrasonic images at a high frame rate or a high volume rate. The ultrasonic diagnostic device comprises: a plurality of transducers arranged on an ultrasonic probe, that oscillate at the same time, and irradiate an ultrasonic beam on a subject; and an ultrasonic image generation unit that generates a first ultrasonic data as a result of the plurality of transducers oscillating at the same time and irradiating a first ultrasonic beam on the subject, generates a second ultrasonic data as a result of the plurality of transducers oscillating at the same time and irradiating a second ultrasonic beam on the subject, and generates an acoustic image on the basis of the first ultrasonic data and the second ultrasonic data.