Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus (1) includes an ultrasound probe (2) and a diagnostic apparatus main body (3) that are wirelessly connected, the ultrasound probe (2) includes a detection unit (16) that generates complex baseband signals, an averaging unit (17) that averages the complex baseband signals at a plurality of sampling points in a Doppler gate set on a B-mode image to acquire average complex baseband signals, and a probe-side wireless communication circuit (20) that wirelessly transmits the average complex baseband signals, and the diagnostic apparatus main body (3) includes a main body-side wireless communication circuit (31) that receives the average complex baseband signals, and a Doppler image generation unit (33) that performs a frequency analysis on the average complex baseband signals to generate a Doppler image, and displays the Doppler image on a monitor (36).

Abstract: Provided are a control method of an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus capable of improving detection accuracy of a target inside a subject. An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe; an image acquisition unit that acquires an ultrasound image of a subject using the ultrasound probe and in accordance with a plurality of parameters related to image acquisition; a specific target detection unit that detects a specific target from the ultrasound image using a machine learning model; and a preset setting unit that sets and supplies different presets to the image acquisition unit during an operation and during a non-operation of the specific target detection unit for a predetermined preset among the plurality of parameters.

Abstract: Provided are a control method for an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus that enable a user to easily and accurately perform a diagnosis. An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: a detection target detection unit configured to detect at least one detection target captured in an ultrasound image; and a region-of-interest setting unit configured to set, in a case where a plurality of the detection targets are detected by the detection target detection unit, only for a part of the detection target among the plurality of detection targets, a region of interest including the part of the detection target.

Abstract: Provided are a control method for an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus that enable a user to easily and accurately perform a diagnosis. An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: a monitor; a detection target detection unit configured to detect a detection target captured in an ultrasound image; a region-of-interest setting unit configured to set, on the ultrasound image, a region of interest including the detection target detected by the detection target detection unit; and a region-of-interest suggestion line display unit configured to display, on the monitor, a region-of-interest suggestion line consisting of only a part of a contour line of the region of interest set by the region-of-interest setting unit.

Abstract: Provided are a control method for an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus that enable a user to easily and accurately perform a diagnosis. An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: a detection target detection unit configured to detect a detection target captured in an ultrasound image; a detection target analysis unit configured to analyze the detection target detected by the detection target detection unit; and a region-of-interest setting unit configured to set, on the ultrasound image, a region of interest that includes the detection target and that is to be disposed at a position corresponding to an analysis result of the detection target by the detection target analysis unit.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic system includes an ultrasound diagnostic device that creates test images of an intima-media thickness of a blood vessel, a workstation connected to the ultrasound diagnostic device, and a database that sequentially stores the test images created by the ultrasound diagnostic device. The workstation includes an input unit for allowing a user to input various kinds of information, a display unit, a workstation control unit that retrieves test images in past tests for the patient as past images from the test images stored in the database to make the display unit display the past images stored in the database as thumbnails, after a current image that is a test image of a current test are created for the patient by the ultrasound diagnostic device, and a test report creation unit that automatically creates a test report on the basis of the current image, and at least one past image selected by the user via the input unit from the past images displayed as the thumbnails on the display unit.

Abstract: The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, ultrasound image generation apparatus and method transmit ultrasound waves to a subject into which a puncture tool is inserted, receive reflected waves reflected from the subject and the puncture tool, and generate echo signals of time-sequential frames based on the received reflected waves, and generate an ultrasound image of the subject based on the generated echo signals. These apparatus and method generate a differential echo signal between time-sequential frames from the echo signals, perform a tip detection process based on the differential echo signal to thereby detect at least one tip candidate including a tip end of the puncture tool, highlight a tip candidate of the puncture tool detected to thereby generate a tip image, and display the tip image of the highlighted puncture tool so as to be superimposed on the generated ultrasound image.

Abstract: According to the present invention, in an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method for an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, an ultrasound image generation unit is configured to generate an ultrasound image from a reception signal obtained by transmitting and receiving an ultrasound beam to and from an examination area of a subject under examination using the ultrasound probe, and an optical camera is configured to generate an optical image by imaging the subject under examination including the ultrasound probe during examination of the examination area. A probe recognition section is configured to recognize the ultrasound probe from the optical image, and a trimming section is configured to generate a trimmed image by trimming a region including the ultrasound probe from the optical image in a case where the ultrasound probe is recognized. Then, a display control unit is configured to display the ultrasound image and the trimmed image on a monitor.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus having: a display that displays a B-mode image in which at least a blood vessel region is imaged; and a processor configured to set a Doppler gate within the blood vessel region on the B-mode image; acquire a blood vessel gradient; and detect an anterior vascular wall and a posterior vascular wall by performing image analysis on the B-mode image, on an outer side of the Doppler gate in a direction perpendicular to the blood vessel gradient.

Abstract: An ultrasound system 1 includes an ultrasound probe 2 and an image display device 3. The ultrasound probe 2 includes a transducer array 11 including a plurality of transducers, a transmitting and receiving unit 14 that transmits and receives ultrasonic waves using an aperture transducer group consisting of some transducers to generate a sound ray signal, and an image information data generation unit 19 that generates image information data from the sound ray signal. The image display device 3 includes a display unit 34. One of the ultrasound probe 2 and the image display device 3 includes a display image region determination unit 22 that determines a display image region obtained by excluding a shallow image region from an ultrasound image on the basis of the width of all of the transducers, the width of the aperture transducer group, and a steering angle range of a scanning line. The display unit 34 displays the ultrasound image based on the image information data only in the display image region.

Abstract: The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, ultrasound image generation apparatus and method transmit ultrasound waves to a subject into which a puncture tool is inserted, receive reflected waves reflected from the subject and the puncture tool, and generate echo signals of time-sequential frames based on the received reflected waves, and generate an ultrasound image of the subject based on the generated echo signals. These apparatus and method generate a differential echo signal between time-sequential frames from the echo signals, perform a tip detection process based on the differential echo signal to thereby detect at least one tip candidate including a tip end of the puncture tool, highlight a tip candidate of the puncture tool detected to thereby generate a tip image, and display the tip image of the highlighted puncture tool so as to be superimposed on the generated ultrasound image.

Abstract: In a photoacoustic image generation apparatus including a photoacoustic image generation unit that generates a photoacoustic image based on a detection signal and a sound speed in a subject and a sound speed setting unit that sets the sound speed in the subject, the sound speed setting unit extracts a region having a predetermined range including a high signal value pixel collection portion having a region size larger than a reference region size as a tip region in a photoacoustic image generated based on an assumed sound speed and the detection signal and sets a sound speed of a photoacoustic image having a maximum image evaluation value as the sound speed in the subject among photoacoustic images for respective sound speeds generated by changing the sound speed in a predetermined sound speed range for the tip region.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe including a housing in which a first transducer array is disposed at one end and a second transducer array is disposed at the other end, a sensor that is provided in the housing and outputs information for acquiring motion information of the ultrasound probe or angle information of the ultrasound probe, and a processor that acquires used array information indicating which of the first transducer array and the second transducer array is used. The processor is configured to acquire the motion information or the angle information based on the output of the sensor and determine a motion or a position of the ultrasound probe with respect to a subject based on the acquired motion information or angle information and the used array information.

Abstract: An ultrasound system includes an ultrasound probe and an image display device. The ultrasound probe includes a transducer array, a transmitting and receiving unit that transmits and receives ultrasonic waves using the transducer array to generate a sound ray signal; a frame image information data generation unit that generates frame image information data from the sound ray signal; and a wireless communication unit that transmits a plurality of frame image information data items to the image display device. The image display device includes a frame type determination unit that determines frame types of the plurality of frame image information data items, a combination determination unit that determines whether or not to combine the frame image information data items on the basis of the frame types, a compound image data generation unit that combines the plurality of frame image information data items, and a display unit that displays a compound image.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus (1) includes an ultrasound probe (2) and a diagnostic apparatus body (3) connected to the ultrasound probe (2), in which the diagnostic apparatus body (3) includes a monitor (15) on which an ultrasound diagnosis image and a plurality of diagnostic finding icons corresponding to a plurality of determined diagnostic findings are displayed, a similarity determination unit (18) that determines similarity between the ultrasound diagnosis image and each of a plurality of image patterns corresponding to the plurality of diagnostic findings, and a display position changing unit (19) that changes display positions of the plurality of diagnostic finding icons on the monitor in accordance with the similarity determined by the similarity determination unit (18).

Abstract: An insert having a photoacoustic wave generation portion, an acoustic wave detection unit that detects photoacoustic waves and reflected acoustic waves, a photoacoustic image generation unit that generates a photoacoustic image on the basis of the photoacoustic waves, an image output unit that outputs information on the basis of the photoacoustic waves detected by the acoustic wave detection unit, a tip position detection unit that detects that a tip portion of the insert is disposed at a predetermined detection position with respect to the acoustic wave detection unit, and a control unit that displays information on the basis of intensity of a detection signal of the photoacoustic waves generated from the photoacoustic wave generation portion on image display as an insert inspection mode in a case where it is detected that the tip portion of the insert is disposed at the predetermined detection position are included.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus including: an ultrasound probe; a processor configured to perform transmission of ultrasound beam from the ultrasound probe to a subject to acquire an ultrasound image; a camera configured to acquire a digital image of a state of the ultrasound probe being in contact with the subject; a touch panel including a display screen displaying the ultrasound image and the digital image; an interface to receive instruction to acquire the ultrasound image and/or the digital image from a user; and a memory configured to store the ultrasound image and the digital image, wherein the processor is further configured to: exclusively control between the acquisition of the ultrasound image and the acquisition of the digital image according to instruction received by the interface; and save the ultrasound image and the digital image of the same inspection in the memory in association with each other.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus (1) includes an ultrasound probe (2) and a diagnostic apparatus main body (3) that are wirelessly connected, the ultrasound probe (2) includes a detection unit (16) that generates complex baseband signals, an averaging unit (17) that averages the complex baseband signals at a plurality of sampling points in a Doppler gate set on a B-mode image to acquire average complex baseband signals, and a probe-side wireless communication circuit (20) that wirelessly transmits the average complex baseband signals, and the diagnostic apparatus main body (3) includes a main body-side wireless communication circuit (31) that receives the average complex baseband signals, and a Doppler image generation unit (33) that performs a frequency analysis on the average complex baseband signals to generate a Doppler image, and displays the Doppler image on a monitor (36).

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasound probe including a transducer array and a diagnostic apparatus main body including a monitor that are wirelessly connected; and a color flow mode, the ultrasound probe includes a transmission and reception circuit that causes the transducer array to transmit an ultrasonic pulse toward a subject, and performs reception focusing processing on a reception signal output from the transducer array that has received an ultrasound echo from the subject to generate a sound ray signal, a flow image information generation unit that generates flow image information consisting of velocity data and at least one of dispersion data or power data on the basis of the sound ray signal, and a probe-side wireless communication circuit that wirelessly transmits the flow image information, and the diagnostic apparatus main body includes a main body-side wireless communication circuit that receives the flow image information wirelessly transmitted from the probe-side wireless

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus (1) includes a time phase search period specifying unit (16) that specifies a time phase search period in each heartbeat period on the basis of Doppler data; and a frame specifying unit (12) that specifies at least one of B-mode data of a frame with a maximum diameter of a blood vessel or B-mode data of a frame with a minimum diameter of the blood vessel in each heartbeat period by analyzing the B-mode data of a plurality of frames in the time phase search period specified by the time phase search period specifying unit (16).