Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus of the present invention, an ultrasonic transducer as well as for transmitting ultrasonic waves by driving the ultrasonic probe for transmitting and receiving to the subject an ultrasound contact with the subject, the ultrasonic probe an ultrasonic transmitting and receiving unit for signal processing a received signal child received, ultrasonic image constructing unit for constituting an ultrasonic image of the subject from the received signal processed by the ultrasound transceiver, an ultrasonic transceiver In the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus comprising a control unit for controlling the ultrasonic image constructing unit, an operation unit for inputting the control parameters the operator controls the control unit, and a display unit for displaying an ultrasound image that is constructed There, the execution procedure setting portion for setting and reading and executing procedure storage unit for storing an execution procedure which is set in advance, the execution steps stored in the execution step storage unit, the control unit, the progress of the execution procedure I comprises a processing procedure execution control unit that performs a process of adding the execution procedure as progress information.本発明の超音波診断装置は、被検者に当接し超音波を被検者に送受信する超音波探触子と、超音波探触子を駆動して超音波を送信すると共に超音波探触子が受信した受信信号を信号処理する超音波送受信部と、超音波送受信部によって信号処理された受信信号から被検者の超音波画像を構成する超音波画像構成部と、超音波送受信部と超音波画像構成部を制御する制御部と、操作者が制御部を制御する制御パラメータを入力する操作部と、構成された超音波画像を表示する表示部と、を備えた超音波診断装置であって、前記制御部は、予め設定された実行手順を記憶する実行手順記憶部と、実行手順記憶部に記憶された実行手順を読み出し・設定する実行手順設定部と、実行手順の進行状況を進行度情報として実行手順に付加する処理を行う実行手順処理制御部と、を備える。
