ULTRASOUND IMAGING DEVICE AND METHOD USING POSITION AND POSTURE TRACKING OF PROBE OF ULTRASOUND SCANNER
Patent №
US 11,850,095
Granted
2023-12-26
Filed 2021
Owner
DECASIGHT CORPORATION
Lab
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AI components
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vision
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
17596851
Disclosed is an ultrasonic image presentation device comprising: an ultrasonic scanner having a probe which is a part coming into direct contact with an object and a marker; a photographing unit configured to photograph the marker; an ultrasonic image presentation unit configured to acquire an ultrasonic image as a two-dimensional depth cross-sectional image for a part coming into contact with the probe of the ultrasonic scanner, estimate a position and posture of the marker in a three-dimensional image on the basis of an image photographed by the photographing unit; estimate a position and posture of the probe in the three-dimensional image from the estimated marker position and posture information, create a point cloud by converting pixels of the ultrasonic image into points of the three-dimensional image on the basis of the estimated probe position and posture information, and restore the three-dimensional ultrasonic image on the basis of the created point cloud; and a display unit configured to display the three-dimensional ultrasonic image restored by the ultrasonic image presentation unit. It is possible to provide a three-dimensional ultrasonic image simply and easily with lower cost.
AI classification
Ownership
DECASIGHT CORPORATION
assignment · 584330338
Assignors
PARK, BYUNG JOON, CHOI, SOO HO, KIM, TAE HYUN
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