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Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing method

  • US 10,695,031 B2
  • Filed: 01/14/2015
  • Issued: 06/30/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprising:

  • a processor configured togenerate, based on a reflection wave signal of an ultrasonic wave that is transmitted into a subject, strain information indicating a spatial distribution of a strain of a tissue that is pressured and released in the subject for each of a plurality of time phases;

    calculate an indicator indicating pressure and release to the tissue at generation of the strain information, based on the reflection wave signal;

    control to store a plurality of images in a memory, each of the plurality of images being generated based on the spatial distribution indicated by the strain information and corresponding to each of the plurality of time phases;

    rank the plurality of time phases based on magnitude of the indicator;

    extract first time phases among the plurality of time phases, based on the ranking of the plurality of time phases; and

    control to display, in a display order, at least two of the plurality of images stored in the memory corresponding to the extracted first time phases,wherein the display order of the at least two images is based on a result of the ranking of the plurality of time phases such that an image corresponding to a second rank in the ranking is displayed immediately after an image corresponding to a first rank in the ranking is displayed.

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