DETECTION, PRESENTATION AND REPORTING OF B-LINES IN LUNG ULTRASOUND

摘要

The present disclosure describes an ultrasound imaging system (100) configured to identify and display B-lines that may appear during ultrasound scanning of a chest region of a subject. In some examples, the system may include an ultrasound probe and at least two processors (118, 120) configured to generate a plurality of image frames (119) from ultrasound echoes received at the probe. The processors may be further configured to identify a pleural line (202) in each of the plurality of image frames, define a region of interest below each pleural line, identify one or more candidate B-lines (204) within the region of interest, identify one or more B-lines by evaluating one or more parameters of each candidate B-line, and select a target image frame from the plurality of image frames by identifying an image frame that maximizes at least a number or an intensity of B-lines.