Abstract: A medical image processing device includes a processor, in which the processor acquires an examination image of a subject captured by an endoscope, and identifies an incision suitable site in the subject included in the examination image and performs control for outputting incision suitable site information regarding the incision suitable site on the basis of the examination image, and the identification of the incision suitable site information is performed by using a learning image associated with a position of a muscular layer in the subject.

Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein include a processing device configured to display, on a touch-sensitive display screen of a processing device in operative communication with an ultrasound device, an ultrasound image, a movable measurement tool, and an icon that maintains a fixed distance from a portion of the measurement tool. The icon may be configured to modify the measurement tool, and the icon may not overlap the measurement tool.

Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a processing unit coupled to a first memory device comprising a first type of media and a second memory device comprising a second type of media, data captured from an imaging device coupled to the processing unit and determining, by the processing unit, characteristics of a workload corresponding to processing of the data. The method further includes writing, by the processing unit, a portion of data associated with the workload to the other of the first memory device or the second memory device based on the determined characteristics of the workload and causing the workload to be executed while at least the portion of the data associated with the workload is written to the other of the first memory device or the second memory device.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes a head-mounted display that is mounted on a head of a user and has a camera unit configured to acquire a view image obtained by imaging a field of view in front of the user, and a puncture needle length calculation unit (46) that, in a case where at least a part of the puncture needle is imaged by the camera unit, recognizes the puncture needle by performing image analysis on the view image, and calculates a length of the puncture needle in the view image.

Abstract: A mammography system includes a biopsy guidance system that employs a simplified robot arm support, to enable previously unusable locations for the mounting of the biopsy device directly to the mammography system, such as on a compression paddle, combined with a vision guidance and control system. The vision system operates to determine the position of the biopsy device and the biopsy needle tip, as well as to control the movement/operation of the biopsy guidance system, such as movement to the final end-pose or pre-firing position of the biopsy device to perform the biopsy procedure. The vision system utilizes one or more cameras to visually determine the position the biopsy device relative to a region of interest being biopsied within the required tolerances for the biopsy procedure without the need for precise positional information to be provided by the biopsy guidance system to the mammography system.

Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for ultrasound imaging. In one example, a method includes receiving ultrasound signals of a region of interest with a wireless hand-held probe assembly, generating a plurality of received digital signals based on the received ultrasound signals within the wireless hand-held probe assembly, generating each of a larger dataset and a smaller dataset from the plurality of received digital signals, transmitting the smaller dataset from the wireless hand-held probe assembly to a hub via a lower bandwidth wireless connection, transmitting the larger dataset from the wireless hand-held probe assembly to the hub via a higher bandwidth wireless connection, generating each of a low resolution image from the smaller dataset and a high resolution image from the larger dataset at the hub, and transmitting the low resolution image from the hub to a first display and the high resolution image from the hub to an electronic device.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an ultrasound imaging system is configured to receive a set of ultrasound images of a target anatomical region. The set of ultrasound images is combined to create a composite tissue frame. The ultrasound imaging system determines whether an interventional instrument is present within the ultrasound images based on a set of trained classification algorithms based on the set of ultrasound images and the composite tissue frame. If an interventional instrument is detected, the ultrasound imaging system further determines whether an additional ultrasound frame should be captured to image the interventional instrument, and the steer angle to be used for the additional ultrasound image. The ultrasound imaging system determines a linear structure corresponding to the interventional instrument, and creates a blended image showing the interventional instrument and the composite tissue frame.

Abstract: An ultrasound apparatus, ultrasound-based liver examination device and ultrasound imaging method are provided. The ultrasound apparatus may include: an ultrasound probe, a transmission and receiving controller, an ultrasound echo signal processor, a data processor and a display device. The ultrasound echo signal processor may perform different processes on an ultrasound echo signal according to usage of the ultrasound echo signal. A gain compensation for enhancing image quality may be performed on a first ultrasound echo signal to be used for obtaining the ultrasound image, and a gain compensation for preserving original information may be performed on a second ultrasound echo signal to be used for calculating a quantitative parameter of a liver.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for processing image data generated by a medical imaging device such as an ultrasound or echocardiogram device and processing the image data using artificial intelligence and machine learning to determine a presence of one or more congenital heart defects (CHDs) and/or other cardiovascular anomalies in the image data. The image processing system may be used to detect CHDs and/or other cardiovascular anomalies in a fetus. The image data may be processed using a spatiotemporal convolutional neural network (CNN). The spatiotemporal CNN may include a spatial CNN for image recognition and a temporal CNN for processing optical flow data based on the image data. The outputs of the spatial CNN and the temporal CNN may be fused (e.g., using late fusion) to generate a likelihood of CHDs and/or other cardiovascular anomalies.

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: A graphical user interface displayed by a processing device in operative communication with an ultrasound device may include a preset filter option that provides an easy way to switch between different presets which belong to a preset family. The user uses the preset filter feature to cycle through the different presets in the family while remaining on the same screen that is showing ultrasound images collected in real time. The imaging depth remains the same while the user is using the preset filter feature to select the preset within a family. Other settings such as time-gain compensation may not remain the same when cycling between presets. The preset filter feature allows a user to continuously view and assess the ultrasound images being collected in real time while cycling through the presets in the family.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes imaging systems configured to generate adaptive scanning protocols based on anatomical features and conditions identified during a prenatal scan of an object. Systems may include an ultrasound transducer configured to acquire echo signals responsive to ultrasound pulses transmitted toward a target region. Processors coupled with the transducer can generate an image frame from the echoes and provide the image frame to a first neural network. The first neural network may be configured to identify an anatomical feature in the image frame. An indication of the anatomical feature may be provided a second neural network. The second neural network may then determine an anatomical measurement to be obtained based, in part, on the feature identified. The processors may be further configured to cause an indicator of the anatomical measurement to be obtained to be displayed on a user interface.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle safety component diagnosis apparatus that includes: a vehicle state summarizer summarizing a vehicle state on the basis of sensing values collected from a plurality of sensors for a specific period; a vehicle state distribution calculator calculating distribution about summary of a vehicle state for a plurality of specific periods; an abnormal safety component detector detecting an abnormal safety component by determining an abnormal situation about a specific sensing value through the distribution of the summary of the vehicle state; and a precise diagnosis performer performing precise diagnosis about the abnormal safety component. Therefore, according to the present disclosure, it is possible to diagnose defects of safety components using sensing values collected from a plurality of sensors.

Abstract: An analyzing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to detect a shear wave propagating in an object. The processing circuitry is configured to calculate an index value that indicates viscosity within the object and that is not dependent on any physical model related to viscoelasticity, by analyzing the detected shear wave.

Abstract: Provided is an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus to be applied to an ultrasound inspection of a living body part that moves with a movement of a subject in a living body inside the subject. The ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an ultrasound image generation section that generates an ultrasound image based on a reception signal acquired from ultrasound probe which transmits and receives an ultrasound; an image analysis section that detects a movement of the subject by performing an image analysis of time-series camera images acquired from a camera which images the movement of the subject; and a display image generation section that generates a display image including the ultrasound image, and changes a display content or display mode of the display image in conjunction with the movement of the subject detected by the image analysis.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method for augmenting patient-technologist communication, before, during, and after a medical imaging procedure. In accordance with certain embodiments, a system includes a processor and a computer readable storage medium in communication with the processor. The processor executes program instructions stored in the computer readable storage medium which cause the computer processor to generate media that relates to a medical imaging procedure as a function of information in an electronic medical record that corresponds to a patient and output the media that relates to a medical imaging procedure to a display or a speaker.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to generate moving speed information indicating a moving speed of an ultrasound probe, on the basis of a predetermined number of pieces of medical image data among a plurality of pieces of medical image data in a time series obtained from an ultrasound scan performed by the ultrasound probe. The processing circuitry is configured to cause a display to display the moving speed information.

Abstract: Provided herein are an apparatus, system, and method for a medical diagnostic and imaging forceps for determining the pathology of tissue in vivo during surgery, endoscopy, laparoscopy, or other medical procedure, the forceps comprising a platform for analyzing tissue pathology inside the body by way of sensors including without limitation conductivity, optical, tracking, and x-ray sensors.

Abstract: A method for ultrasound image processing having steps of receiving sequences of ultrasound images imaging an anatomical feature of interest during two cardiac cycles one in the absence of, and the other in the presence of, an invasive medical device in said ultrasound images, each ultrasound image corresponding to a different phase of said cardiac cycle. The invasive medical device may at least partially obscure the anatomical feature of interest for each ultrasound image of the further sequence. The location of the invasive medical device is tracked and isolated in the ultrasound image, and the isolated invasive medical device is inserted into an ultrasound image of the first sequence of a corresponding phase of the cardiac cycle in the tracked location. The method also controls a display device to display the first sequence of ultrasound images including the inserted invasive medical device.

Abstract: A display driving integrated circuit (DDIC) driving a display device and including; a host interface configured to receive image data from a host device, an interface monitor configured to generate a mode signal indicating a still image mode or a video mode by detecting whether the image data from the host device is transferred through the host interface, a processing circuit configured to generate processed data by processing the image data, a conversion circuit configured to perform data conversion on the processed data to generate display data driving a display panel, and a path controller configured to store the processed data in a frame buffer and transfer the processed data stored in the frame buffer to the conversion circuit in the still image mode, and further configured to transfer the processed data to the conversion circuit without storing the processed data in the frame buffer in the video mode.

Abstract: An ultrasound imaging system includes a processor programmed to generate an anatomy image and a number of needle frames at different transmit beam angles. The system analyzes the data in the needle frames and selects segments therein that are identified as likely representing an interventional instrument. Data from one or more needle frames are blended with the data for the anatomy image of the tissue to create a composite image of the tissue and the interventional instrument.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an analysis apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry configured to generate a harmonic signal and a fundamental wave signal based on a reception signal that is collected by an ultrasound probe, the harmonic signal corresponding to a harmonic component of a reflected wave of a ultrasound generated in the subject, the fundamental wave signal corresponding to a fundamental wave component of the reflected wave, calculate a first index value indicating tissue properties of the subject based on the harmonic signal, and calculate a second index value indicating the tissue properties based on the fundamental wave signal, and display an analysis result based on the first index value and the second index value.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes a transmitter/receiver and processing circuitry. The transmitter/receiver sequentially transmits a first transmission beam group and a second transmission beam group and receives at least one reception beam for each transmission beam, via an ultrasound probe having a plurality of transducers arranged along an azimuth direction and an elevation direction. The processing circuitry combines a first reception beam based on a first transmission beam included in the first transmission beam group and a second reception beam based on a second transmission beam included in the second transmission beam group. Transmission beams that are adjacent to each other in the azimuth direction or the elevation direction belong to transmission beam groups that are different from each other.

Abstract: Provided is a method of adjusting brightness of an ultrasound image including: generating at least one first image representing a region of interest (ROI) by using echo signals corresponding to ultrasound waves irradiated toward the ROI; adjusting brightness of the at least one first image based on an external signal for selecting at least one selected from a plurality of prestored gradation data and a plurality of prestored image data; and generating a second image representing the ROI based on the adjusted brightness.

Abstract: A method for visualizing a three-dimensional volume for use in a virtual reality environment is performed by uploading two-dimensional images for evaluation, creating planar depictions of the two-dimensional images, and using thresholds to determine if voxels should be drawn. A voxel volume is created from the planar depictions and voxels. A user defines a plane to be used for slicing the voxel volume, and sets values of the plane location and plane normal. The slice plane is placed within the voxel volume and defines a desired remaining portion of the volumetric plane to be displayed. All but the desired remaining portion of the voxel volume is not drawn and the remaining portion is displayed.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention disclose A method and an apparatus for an ultrasound diagnosis based on an electronic device.

Abstract: An ultrasound imaging apparatus and a control method thereof. The ultrasound imaging apparatus may include: a display; a communication unit; and a processor configured to be operatively connected to the display and the communication unit. The processor may obtain a first ultrasound image of a subject and a result of an analysis of the first ultrasound image. The processor may also control the display to display a user interface, which allows selection of an operating mode of the ultrasound imaging apparatus, based on the result of the analysis.

Abstract: Provided are an ultrasound imaging apparatus and a method of processing an ultrasound image. The ultrasound imaging apparatus includes a display configured to display a moving image consisting of a plurality of ultrasound images that are played back according to a time order together with at least one icon, corresponding to at least one piece of change information for changing a display of at least one of the plurality of ultrasound images, in association with the time order.

Abstract: An electronic face-identification device, which performs face scanning with ultrasonic waves, includes a housing and an ultrasound device disposed within the housing. The ultrasound device may be configured to transmit ultrasonic waves through air to a face and scan the face with the ultrasonic waves, to receive reflected waves through the air corresponding to reflections of the ultrasonic waves from the face, and to perform a recognition process for the face based on reflections of the ultrasonic waves from the face. The ultrasound device may include a plurality of ultrasound transducers, and electronic circuitry configured to transmit signals to the ultrasound transducers and receive signals from the ultrasound transducers. The face-identification device may be incorporated into various electronic equipment, such as hand-held equipment in the form of smartphones and tablet computers, as well as in larger scale installations at airports, workplace entryways, and the like.

Abstract: A radiographic image capturing system is described. If a hardware processor determines that an image processor and an image analyzing unit are capable of sharing image data via an identical memory, the image processor stores image data in the memory and the image analyzing unit analyzes the image data with reference to the memory. If the hardware processor determines that the image processor and the image analyzing unit can send and receive the data via a wired network, the image processor transfers the data to the image analyzing unit, and the image analyzing unit analyzes the data. If the hardware processor determines that the image processor and the image analyzing unit can send and receive the data via a wireless network, the image processor compresses the data or decimates partial data and transfers the data to the image analyzing unit, and the image analyzing unit decompresses and analyzes the data.

Abstract: Provided are a method of obtaining a contrast image and an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus for performing the method. The ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes: an ultrasound transceiver; a display; and a controller configured to obtain an ultrasound image and a contrast image of an object by using the ultrasound transceiver, determine a region of interest (ROI) in at least one of the ultrasound image and the contrast image, transmit a flash pulse to destroy a contrast agent in the ROI from among regions of the object, image the contrast agent re-introduced into the ROI, and control the display to display the contrast image of the ROI.

Abstract: An ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes: an ultrasonic probe configured to transmit an ultrasonic signal to an object and receive an echo signal reflected from the object; a display configured to output an ultrasound image output by the ultrasonic probe and a medical image having a modality different from that of the ultrasound image in a matched state; an inputter configured to receive a user input for adjusting a range of an output area of the medical image; and a controller configured to control an ultrasonic beam of the ultrasonic probe to adjust an output area of the ultrasound image in response to detecting that the output area of the medical image is adjusted by the user input.

Abstract: A wireless telecommunications system that mitigates infrasymbol interference due to Doppler-shift and multipath and enables multiple access in one radio channel. Embodiments of the present invention are particularly advantageous for wireless telecommunications systems that operate in high-mobility environments, including high-speed trains and airplanes.

Abstract: An ultrasonic imaging system acquires frames of echo data at a high acquisition frame rate using a single mode of acquisition. The echo data is used by three image processors to produce an anatomical image, a mechanical function image, and a hemodynamic image from the same echo data. A display displays an anatomical image, a mechanical function image, and a hemodynamic image simultaneously.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for indicating a position of an interventional device feature (11a) of an interventional device (11) respective an image plane (12) defined by an ultrasound imaging probe (18) of a beamforming ultrasound imaging system (15) in which the position of the interventional device feature (11a) is determined based on ultrasound signals transmitted between the ultrasound imaging probe (18) and an ultrasound transducer (16) attached to the interventional device at a predetermined distance (Lp) from the interventional device feature (11a). An icon providing unit (IPU) provides a first icon (Cde) indicative of a circular zone with a radius corresponding to the predetermined distance (Lp). The first icon (Cde) is displayed in a fused image that includes a reconstructed ultrasound image (RUI) from the beamforming ultrasound imaging system.

Abstract: Methods and systems for optimizing perivascular neuromodulation therapy using computational fluid dynamics. Digital data regarding three-dimensional imaging of a target blood vessel and corresponding hemodynamic data are inputs to generating a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model. The CFD model enables identification of one or more regions of the vessel suitable for neuromodulation therapy and/or identifying one or more regions of the vessel to avoid during such therapy. A system of the present technology can include a neuromodulation catheter, a computing device that can generate and analyze the CFD model, and a user interface for displaying the vessel with indicia for target regions and/or avoidance regions.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus has: an image acquiring unit that transmits/receives an ultrasound beam from an ultrasound probe to acquire an ultrasound image; a part probability calculating unit that calculates, for the ultrasound image acquired in accordance with a first imaging condition, a probability that a part included in the ultrasound image is a specific part from at least one of an orientation angle of the ultrasound probe or an analysis result of the ultrasound image; and an imaging condition changing unit that changes, when the probability is greater than or equal to a threshold value, the first imaging condition to a second imaging condition for identifying the part for which the probability has been calculated, in which an ultrasound image is further acquired by using the second imaging condition.

Abstract: A method and an ultrasound system are provided for generating transmission signals of an ultrasound probe used in a contrast-enhanced ultrasound image mode. The ultrasound system generates a pair of pulse control signals n and n+1 and a damping compensation pulse control signal, generates a pair of pulses n and n+1 having polarities opposite to each other and a damping compensation pulse having a polarity opposite to that of the n+1-th pulse based on the pair of pulse control signals and the damping compensation pulse control signal, transmits transmission signals including the pair of pulses and the damping compensation pulse, generates an ultrasound signal based on the transmission signals, transmits the ultrasound signal to a target object, and acquires echo signals for forming a contrast-enhanced ultrasound image of the target object. The damping compensation pulse is successively generated after generating the pair of pulses.

Abstract: The invention provides a signal processing system, for transferring analog signals from a probe to a remote processing unit. The system comprises a first ASIC at a probe, which is adapted to receive an analog probe signal. The first ASIC comprises an asynchronous sigma-delta modulator, wherein the asynchronous sigma-delta modulator is adapted to: receive the analog probe signal; and output a binary bit-stream. The system further comprises a second ASIC at the remote processing unit, adapted to receive the binary bit-stream. The asynchronous may further include a time gain function circuit, the first ASIC may further comprise a multiplexer, the second ASIC may further comprise a time-to-digital converter. The time to digital converter may be a pipelined time-to-digital converter.

Abstract: An ultrasonic scanning method for an ultrasonic scanning device is provided according to an embodiment of the disclosure. The ultrasonic scanning method includes: performing an ultrasonic scanning operation on a human body by an ultrasonic scanner to obtain an ultrasonic image; analyzing the ultrasonic image by an image recognition module to identify an organ pattern in the ultrasonic image; and generating, automatically, a guiding message according to an identification result of the organ pattern, wherein the guiding message is configured to guide a moving of the ultrasonic scanner to scan a target organ of the human body.

Abstract: A system for endoscopic surgery within a body lumen of a patient including a flexible catheter having an expandable balloon at a distal portion and an access opening. The expandable balloon is expandable from a collapsed insertion configuration to an expanded configuration to provide an expanded chamber on a first side of the catheter. The access opening provides a window to access target tissue. The catheter includes a lumen dimensioned to receive an endoscopic instrument therethrough such that a distal end of the endoscopic instrument is positionable within the expanded chamber and angled laterally within the expanded chamber to access the target tissue through the window.

Abstract: An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: an imaging unit that converts a received signal output from an ultrasound probe into an image to generate an ultrasound image; an input unit that is used by a user to input patient information; a memory unit that stores content of an examination for continuously examining a plurality of examination parts so as to be associated with the patient information; an examination situation determination unit that, in a case in which new patient information is input to the input unit during the continuous examination, determines whether the examination of all of the plurality of examination parts related to the content of the examination associated with the patient information has ended; and a tag giving unit that gives an examination interruption tag to the patient information in a case in which it is determined that the examination of all of the plurality of examination parts has not ended and gives an examination end tag to the patient information in a case in which it is

Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires first echo data in a first mode, and acquires second echo data in a second mode. The processing circuitry sequentially generates a first image including a B-mode image based on the first echo data in the first mode, and sequentially generates a second image not including a B-mode image based on the second echo data in the second mode. The processing circuitry sequentially generates a third image from pre-acquired volume data. The processing circuitry directs a display to sequentially display the first image and the third image in the first mode, and to sequentially display the second image and the third image in the second mode.

Abstract: An ultrasound observation apparatus includes: an operation controller configured to control a shape of a region of interest that is set in an ultrasound image according to a change in a contact position at which a contacting object contacts a touch pad, the operation controller being configured to detect two contact positions of the contacting object on the touch pad, calculate a first positional relationship based on the two contact positions in the touch pad, detect a position of the region of interest that is set in the ultrasound image, calculate a second positional relationship based on a position at which the region of interest is set and on a reference position, and control the shape of the region of interest based on a relative relationship between the first positional relationship and the second positional relationship.

Abstract: Provided is an art in which when an operator grips a probe of an ultrasonic imaging apparatus and moves the probe, it is facilitated to maintain the probe at a suitable angle with respect to an object to be imaged. A probe adapter may include a contact surface having a shape extending along an outer circumference of a cross section of an object to be imaged, and a fixing portion configured to fix a probe having an ultrasonic wave transmitting-receiving surface which transmits and receives an ultrasonic wave at a given angle and expose the ultrasonic wave transmitting-receiving surface to the contact surface side.

Abstract: A tool navigation system employing an ultrasound probe, an ultrasound scanner, an interventional tool, a tool tracker and an image navigator. In operation, the ultrasound probe generates an acoustic image plane for scanning an anatomical region, and the ultrasound scanner generates an ultrasound image of the anatomical region from a scan of the anatomical region. During the scan, the interventional tool is navigated within the anatomical region relative to the acoustic image plane, and the tool tracker tracks a position of the interventional tool relative to the acoustic image plane. The image navigator displays a graphical icon within the ultrasound image for illustrating a tracking of the interventional tool relative to the acoustic image plane by the tool tracker. Additionally, a special attachment on the US probe with PZT type sensors can help this navigation by emitting acoustic waves off the central axis of the imaging plane.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a display interface with a first display area and a second display area, a memory and a processor. The memory stores at least one instruction. The processor is coupled to the memory. After loading the program instruction, the processor performs: accessing an image record file with a plurality of original frames; simultaneously displaying the original frames in the first display area and the second display area according to an original scale; detecting whether a first object exists in the image record file; and when the first object is detected in the image record file, displaying a zoom-in image with the first object in the second display area according to a first magnification scale and displaying the original frame corresponding to the zoom-in image in the first display area according to the original scale, wherein the first magnification scale is greater than the original scale.

Abstract: A medical system according to embodiments of the present invention includes at least one sensor configured to monitor physiological status of a patient and to generate sensor data based on the physiological status, a user interface device, a processor communicably coupled to the user interface device, the processor configured to: present via the user interface device an array of two or more possible input elements, the input elements each comprising a class of patients or a diagnosis and treatment pathway; receive a selected input element based on a user selection among the two or more possible input elements; acquire the sensor data and process the sensor data to generate physiological data; and present via the user interface screen the physiological data according to a template that is customized for the selected input element.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for providing three-dimensional ultrasound images of a volume (50) and an ultrasound imaging system (10). In particular, the current invention applies to live three-dimensional imaging. To maintain a steady frame rate of the displayed images even if a user changes a region of interest and, therewith, the size of the volume (50) to be scanned, it is contemplated to adjust a density of the scanning lines within the volume (50) as a function of a size of the volume while maintaining a total number of scanning lines across the volume (50).

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for performing a minimally invasive procedure in an automated or semi-automated fashion, where an imaging probe having an imaging modality compatible with the presence of an intraluminal medium is employed to record images that are processed to identify regions of interest and direct a medium displacement operation during a subsequent minimally invasive operation that benefits from the displacement of the intraluminal medium. The minimally invasive operation may include recording images with a second imaging modality, or may be a therapeutic treatment. The method is may be performed in real-time, where images obtained from the first imaging modality are processed in real time to determine whether or not the minimally invasive operation is to be performed at a given position.