USER INTERFACE AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING RELATED INFORMATION DISPLAYED IN AN ULTRASOUND SYSTEM

• US 20140347388A1
• Filed: 08/06/2014
• Published: 11/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: General Electric Company
• Original Assignee: General Electric Company
• Inventors: Friedman, Zvi, Goldenberg, Sergei, Lysyansky, Peter
• Granted Patent: US 9,024,971 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/629
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/503 for diagnosis of the heart
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/08 Detecting organic movements or changes, e.g. tumours, cysts, swellings A61B8/02 - A61B8/06 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/0883 for diagnosis of the heart
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/463 characterised by displaying multiple images or images and diagnostic data on one display composite display in devices for short-range imaging with acoustic waves G01S7/52074
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/483 involving the acquisition of a 3D volume of data
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 8/5292 using additional data, e.g. patient information, image labeling, acquisition parameters
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/52071 Multicolour displays; using colour coding; Optimising colour or information content in displays, e.g. parametric imaging
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/52074 Composite displays, e.g. split-screen displays; Combination of multiple images or of images and alphanumeric tabular information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/001 Texturing; Colouring; Generation of texture or colour inpainting G06T5/77
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

A user interface and method for identifying related information displayed in an ultrasound system are provided. A medical image display of the ultrasound system includes a first region configured to display a medical image having color coded portions and a second region configured to display non-image data related to the medical image displayed in the first region. The non-image data is color coded to associate the non-image data with the color coded portions of the medical image.

Claims

1. A medical image display comprising:

a first region displaying a medical image of a body tissue and having a color coded overlay displayed on the medical image of the body tissue, the color coded overlay representative of strain values; and

a second region displaying non-image data related to the medical image of the body tissue displayed in the first region, the non-image data color coded to associate the non-image data with the color coded overlay, the non-image data plotted on a graph as a function of time.

2. A medical image display in accordance with claim 1 wherein the color coded overlay comprises a plurality of segments with each segment having a different corresponding color.

3. A medical image display in accordance with claim 1 wherein the strain values comprise local strain values and the local strain values are two-dimensional based local strain calculated values.

4. A medical image display in accordance with claim 1 further comprising a third region displaying a medical image of the body tissue and having a color coded segmented overlay on the medical image, where the color coded segmented overlay displays an average strain for each segment within a corresponding portion of the color coded segmented overlay.

5. A medical image display in accordance with claim 1 wherein the non-image data comprises physiologic parameter data graphed over time.

6. A medical image display in accordance with claim 5 further comprising a single trace curve corresponding to different color coded portions of the color coded overlay with each single trace curve colored the same as the corresponding color coded portion of the color coded overlay.

7. A medical image display in accordance with claim 6 wherein the single trace curve corresponding to a color coded portion of the displayed medical image is highlighted upon selection by a user of the corresponding color coded portion.

8. A medical image display in accordance with claim 1 wherein the displayed medical image is configured in a color coded segmental view by the color coded overlay and the non-image data comprises a plurality of curves defining a graph of physiologic parameters segmented into color bands corresponding to the segments of the color coded segmental view.

9. A medical image display in accordance with claim 1 wherein the strain values comprise local instantaneous strain values displayed as a function of time.

10. A medical image display in accordance with claim 9 further comprising a color coded legend identifying a strain percentage range corresponding to the color coded overlay.

11. A medical image display in accordance with claim 9 further comprising a strain value displayed and associated with a selected region in the color coded overlay.

12. A medical image display in accordance with claim 11 wherein the local instantaneous strain values are automatically updated based on the region selected.

13. A medical image display in accordance with claim 4 wherein the first, second and third regions define separate windows in a quad-view arrangement.

14. A medical image display in accordance with claim 1 wherein the color coded overlay corresponds to color coded segments of the body tissue of the displayed medical image, each segment having a differently colored solid outline and including a visual indication of an average strain value, and wherein the non-image data comprises a plurality of trace curves showing average strain data over time, each of the plurality of trace curves corresponding to a different color coded segment and colored in the same color as the colored outline of the corresponding color coded segment.

15. A medical image display comprising:

data corresponding to a displayed image of a body tissue, the data displayed in combination with and overlaying the displayed image of the body tissue, the data comprising one of velocity data, strain data, or strain rate data; and

visual indications associating non-image data with the data overlaying the displayed image of the body tissue, the visual indications color coded based on a segmental spatial view of the displayed image.

16. A medical image display in accordance with claim 15 wherein the visual indications change based on selected regions of the displayed image.

17. A medical image display in accordance with claim 15 wherein the visual indications comprise one of highlighting and text displayed values.

18. A medical image display in accordance with claim 15 wherein the non-image data comprises trace curves of strain values graphed over time.