ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM AND PORTABLE ULTRASONIC DIAGNOSTIC APPARATUS THEREOF

• US 20120157846A1
• Filed: 03/25/2011
• Published: 06/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pai-Chi Li
• Original Assignee: Pai-Chi Li
• Inventors: LI, Pai-Chi, Li, Yen-Feng
• Application Number:
  US13/071,856
• Publication Number:
  US 20120157846A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/443
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/5207 involving processing of raw data to produce diagnostic data, e.g. for generating an image reconstruction G06T11/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/565 involving data transmission via a network

Abstract

An exemplary ultrasonic diagnostic system includes a portable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and a cloud computing system. The portable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasonic sensing unit, a front-end circuit, a data compression unit and a communication unit. The ultrasonic sensing unit is configured to sense a signal reflected from a measured object. The front-end circuit is configured to perform a pre-processing on an output of the ultrasonic sensing unit. The data compression unit is configured to receive an output of the front-end circuit and determine whether to perform a data compression process on the output of the front-end circuit according to a selected result. The communication unit is configured to receive an output of the data compression unit and further transmit the output of the data compression unit to the cloud computing system.

Claims

1. A portable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprising:

an ultrasonic sensing unit, for sensing a signal reflected from a measured object;

a front-end circuit, for performing a pre-processing on an output of the ultrasonic sensing unit;

a data compression unit, for receiving an output of the front-end circuit and determining whether to perform a data compression processing on the output of the front-end circuit according to a selected result; and

a communication unit, for receiving an output of the data compression unit and transmitting the output of the data compression unit to a cloud computing system.

2. The portable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a signal corresponding to the output of the data compression unit and transmitted from the communication unit is received the cloud computing system, performed with a data decompression processing by the clouding computing system and thereby rebuilt to be an ultrasonic image by the clouding computing system.

3. The portable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein at least one of image forming operation, image analysis operation, image archiving operation and computer aided diagnosis operation is further performed by the clouding computing system based on the ultrasonic image.

4. The portable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the data compression processing and the data decompression processing both are performed based on one of a lossy compression method and a lossless compression method.

5. The portable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the data compression processing is performed based on one of a lossy compression method and a lossless compression method.

6. The portable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the communication unit is linked to the cloud computing system in one of a wired manner and a wireless manner.

7. The portable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the ultrasonic sensing unit comprises at least an ultrasonic sensing probe.

8. The portable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a user input interface; and

a control unit, for receiving a command entered by a user through the user input interface and thereby generating a control signal to allow the data compression unit to obtain the selected result according to the control signal.

9. The portable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the control unit further is for controlling the data compression unit to select a data compression format according to a command entered by the user.

10. An ultrasonic diagnostic system comprising:

a portable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, comprising;

an ultrasonic sensing unit, for sensing a signal reflected from a measured object;

a front-end circuit, for performing a pre-processing on an output of the ultrasonic sensing unit;

a data compression unit, for receiving an output of the front-end circuit and determining whether to perform a data compression processing on the output of the front-end circuit according to a selected result; and

a communication unit, for receiving and transmitting an output of the data compression unit; and

a cloud computing system, for receiving a signal corresponding to the output of the data compression unit transmitted from the communication unit, performing a data decompression processing on the received signal and thereby rebuilding an ultrasonic image.

11. The ultrasonic diagnostic system according to claim 10, wherein the cloud computing system is further for performing at least one of image forming operation, image analysis operation, image archiving operation and computer aided diagnosis operation.

12. The ultrasonic diagnostic system according to claim 10, wherein the data compression process and the data decompression processing both are performed based on one of a lossy compression method and a lossless compression method.

13. The ultrasonic diagnostic system according to claim 10, wherein the cloud computing system comprises a computer apparatus installed with a back-end processing software, the back-end processing software performs the data decompression processing on the received signal of the cloud computing system and thereby rebuilds the ultrasonic image.

14. The ultrasonic diagnostic system according to claim 13, wherein the back-end processing software is executed by a central processing unit or a graphic processing unit of the computer apparatus.

15. The ultrasonic diagnostic system according to claim 10, wherein the communication unit is linked to the cloud computing system in one of a wired manner or a wireless manner.

16. The ultrasonic diagnostic system according to claim 10, wherein the ultrasonic sensing unit comprises at least one ultrasonic sensing probe.

17. The ultrasonic diagnostic system according to claim 10, wherein the portable ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus further comprises:

a user input interface; and

a control unit, for receiving a command entered by a user through the user input interface and thereby generating a control signal to allow the data compression unit to obtain the selected result according to the control signal.

18. The ultrasonic diagnostic system according to claim 17, wherein the control unit further is for controlling the data compression unit to select a data compression format according to a command entered by the user.