Ultrasound System with Target and Medical Instrument Awareness

Abstract: blood vessel recognition and needle guidance systems, components, and methods thereof. a console can be configured to initiate a target recognition process for recognizing an anatomical target, such as a blood vessel, of a patient and a needle guidance process for guiding insertion of a needle into the anatomical target using ultrasound-imaging data received by the console. the system can perform target identification based on machine learning models which can be trained to recognize targets based on the ultrasound image. the ultrasound probe can be configured to provide to the console electrical signals corresponding to the ultrasound-imaging data. the ultrasound probe can include an array of transducers and, optionally, an array of magnetic sensors respectively configured to convert reflected ultrasound signals from the patient and magnetic signals from the needle, when magnetized, into the electrical signals.

Inventor(s): Shayne Messerly, Anthony K. Misener, Steffan Sowards, William Robert McLaughlin

CPC Classification: A61B34/20 (Surgical navigation systems; Devices for tracking or guiding surgical instruments, e.g. for frameless stereotaxis)

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