Information processing apparatus, ultrasonic imaging apparatus, and information processing method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakaaki Endo, Ryo Ishikawa, Kiyohide Satoh
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Abstract
An ultrasonic imaging support apparatus for supporting imaging performed by an ultrasonic probe that acquires an ultrasonic image of a subject includes a specification unit configured to specify a position inside the subject in a three dimensional image, an identification unit configured to identify a position on a body surface of the subject based on the specified position, and a display control unit configured to display a position where the ultrasonic image acquired by the ultrasonic probe is captured and the identified position on a display unit.
Claims21
An image processing apparatus for supporting imaging performed by an ultrasonic probe that acquires an ultrasonic image of a subject, the image processing apparatus comprising:
- a memory storing a program;
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- one or more processors which, by executing the program, function as:
- an acquisition unit configured to acquire a three dimensional image of the subject and a direction corresponding to an orientation of the ultrasonic probe;
- a specification unit configured to specify a target point inside the subject in the three dimensional image acquired by the acquisition unit;
- a processor unit configured to identify, as a position on a body surface of the subject, an intersection between a straight line and the body surface of the subject, the straight line extending from the target point to the body surface in a same direction as the direction corresponding to the orientation of the ultrasonic probe;
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- a display controller configured to cause a display unit to display the ultrasonic image acquired by the ultrasonic probe and the identified position on the body surface of the subject superimposed on a body mark image indicating the shape of the body surface of the subject.
An image processing method for controlling a processor coupled to memory storing instructions for supporting imaging performed by an ultrasonic probe which acquires an ultrasonic image of a subject, the image processing method comprising:
- acquiring a three dimensional image of the subject and a direction corresponding to an orientation of the ultrasonic probe;
- specifying a target point inside the subject in the three dimensional image;
- processing using the processor to identify, as a position on a body surface of the subject, an intersection between a straight line and the body surface of the subject, the straight line extending from the target point to the body surface in a same direction as the direction corresponding to the orientation of the ultrasonic probe;
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- causing a display controller to display the ultrasonic image acquired by the ultrasonic probe and the identified position on the body surface of the subject superimposed on a body mark image indicating the shape of the body surface of the subject.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.