摘要 |
A mobile ultrasound scanning system with computer-based detection methods is disclosed, comprising: (1) a small ultrasound probe containing at least one transmitting and receiving element; a probe enclosure (21); a human attachment means (22) for temporarily attaching the probe enclosure to a human finger, or group of fingers, or the palm of a human hand; (2) a system data communications means for data communications and control communications between the small ultrasound probe and a mobile data processing computer; (3) a mobile data processing computer containing a CPU, operating system, remote information network TCP/IP connectivity, and memory; (4) a library of down-loadable and installable computer-based medical-condition detection methods, which methods execute within the said mobile data processing computer, and which library contains at least one computer-based method capable of executing in said data processing computer and capable of analyzing ultrasound probe echo data and drawing probable inferences concerning the detection of a specific disease therefrom; (5) a user interface means for accepting end-user input commands and input data, and for displaying inference results derived from the execution of a computer-based method of disease detection, and presenting said results to the end-user as a simple color-coded visual indicator.
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