Ultrasonic diagnosis device and ultrasonic diagnosis system

Abstract

An ultrasonic diagnosis device includes a diagnostic image generation unit ( 7 ) that generates an ultrasonic image from ultrasonic data obtained by transmission and reception of ultrasonic waves; an input unit ( 1 ) for receiving an input of a reference image, and hardware configuration and control parameter information data that is associated with the reference image, which are to be used by the diagnostic image generation unit; a parameter setting unit ( 3 ) that sets parameter information necessary for generating the ultrasonic image based on the input data that has been input; and a storage unit ( 8 ) that stores the ultrasonic image in association with the parameter information, and supplies ultrasonic image data with which the parameter information is associated, as a reference image. This enables easy setting of the parameters to be used in new diagnostic image acquisition so as to be set the same as the parameters used in reference image acquisition.

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         14 . An ultrasonic diagnosis device comprising:
 an ultrasonic data acquisition unit that acquires ultrasonic data;   a diagnostic image generation unit that generates an ultrasonic image from the ultrasonic data;   an input unit for receiving an input of data to be used by the diagnostic image generation unit;   a parameter setting unit that sets parameter information necessary for acquiring the ultrasonic data and generating the ultrasonic image based on the input data that has been input; and   a storage unit that stores the ultrasonic image,   wherein the parameter setting unit adds hardware configuration information pertaining to the ultrasonic diagnosis device to the parameter information, in which the hardware configuration information is defined as information for converting the parameter information into a format that is in accordance with a hardware configuration of the current ultrasonic diagnosis device, and   the storage unit stores the parameter information in association with the ultrasonic image, with the hardware configuration information being added to the parameter information.   
     
     
         15 . The ultrasonic diagnosis device according to  claim 14 , wherein when the ultrasonic image associated with the parameter information to which the hardware configuration information has been added are input from the input unit, the parameter setting unit converts the input parameter information into parameter information that is in accordance with the hardware configuration of the ultrasonic diagnosis device. 
     
     
         16 . The ultrasonic diagnosis device according to  claim 15 , wherein the storage unit converts a change in the parameter information caused by additional adjustment into a format conforming to the hardware configuration information of the ultrasonic diagnosis device, adds the resulting information to the parameter information set by the parameter setting unit, and stores the resulting parameter information in association with the ultrasonic image generated by the diagnostic image generation unit. 
     
     
         17 . The ultrasonic diagnosis device according to  claim 14 , wherein the storage unit supplies an external storage unit being independent of the current ultrasonic diagnosis device with the stored ultrasonic image associated with the parameter information to which the hardware configuration information is added. 
     
     
         18 . The ultrasonic diagnosis device according to  claim 14 , wherein the parameter information includes the device control parameters used for acquiring ultrasonic data and image processing parameters used for performing image processing on the ultrasonic data so as to generate a diagnostic image. 
     
     
         19 . An ultrasonic diagnosis device comprising:
 an ultrasonic data acquisition unit that acquires ultrasonic data;   a diagnostic image generation unit that generates an ultrasonic image form the ultrasonic data; and   a parameter setting unit that sets parameter information necessary for acquiring the ultrasonic data and generating the ultrasonic image in the current diagnosis, based on the parameter information for acquiring the ultrasonic data and generating the ultrasonic image which were set in the past diagnosis,   wherein the parameter setting unit converts the parameter information that is in accordance with the hardware configuration information of the ultrasonic diagnosis device used in the past diagnosis, into parameter information that is in accordance with the hardware configuration information of the ultrasonic diagnosis device to be used in the current diagnosis, in which the hardware configuration information is defined as information for converting the parameter information into a format that is in accordance with a hardware configuration of the current ultrasonic diagnosis device.   
     
     
         20 . The ultrasonic diagnosis device according to  claim 19 , wherein the parameter setting unit acquires the parameter information that is in accordance with the hardware configuration information of the ultrasonic diagnosis device used in the past diagnosis, form an external storage unit being independent of the current ultrasonic diagnosis device or an image server that is connected to the current ultrasonic diagnosis device via a communication network. 
     
     
         21 . The ultrasonic diagnosis device according to  claim 19 , wherein the parameter information includes device control parameters used for acquiring ultrasonic data and image processing parameters used for performing image processing on the ultrasonic data so as to generate a diagnostic image. 
     
     
         22 . The ultrasonic diagnosis device according to  claim 20 , wherein the parameter information includes device control parameters used for acquiring ultrasonic data and image processing parameters used for performing image processing on the ultrasonic data so as to generate a diagnostic image.