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US 11,238,588 B2Granted
Medical diagnosis support apparatus, information processing method, medical diagnosis support system, and program
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasami Kawagishi, Daisuke Furukawa, Bin Chen
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Abstract
The present invention is to provide an apparatus presenting information serving as a reason for inference as information on findings so as to be easily recognized by a doctor. A medical diagnosis support apparatus infers a diagnostic name derived from a medical image based on image feature values indicating features of a region included in the medical image, acquires information on findings representing the features of the region included in the medical image based on the image feature values, and presents the information on the findings as a reason for the inference.
Claims26
A medical diagnosis support apparatus comprising:
- one or more memories, and
- one or more processors in communication with the one or more memories, wherein the one or more memories and the one or more processors operate to implement:
- an image feature value acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a medical image, image feature values, wherein the image feature values are numerical values indicating features of a region included in the medical image;
- an inference unit configured to infer a diagnostic name derived from the medical image using the image feature values indicating the features of the region included in the medical image as an input of the inference;
- an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on findings, representing the features of the region included in the medical image by a language as candidates of reference information, which are converted from the image feature values used by the inference unit as the input of the inference;
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- a presentation control unit configured to present the information on the findings acquired by the acquisition unit as a reason for the inference performed by the inference unit.
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An information processing method of diagnosis support, the method comprising:
- acquiring, from a medical image, image feature values, wherein the image feature values are numerical values indicating features of a region included in the medical image;
- inferring a diagnostic name derived from the medical image based on the image feature values indicating the features of the region included in the medical image;
- acquiring information on findings, representing the features of the region included in the medical image by a language as candidates of reference information, by converting the image feature values;
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- presenting the acquired information on the findings as a reason for the inference.
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An information processing method of diagnosis support, the method comprising:
- acquiring, from a medical image, image feature values, wherein the image feature values are numerical values indicating features of a region included in the medical image;
- inferring a diagnostic name derived from the medical image using the image feature values indicating the features of the region included in the medical image as an input;
- acquiring information on findings, representing the features of the region included in the medical image by a language as candidates of reference information, by converting the image feature values that were input for the inference;
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- presenting the acquired information on the findings as a reason for the inference.
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An information processing method of diagnosis support, the method comprising:
- acquiring, from a medical image, image feature values, wherein the image feature values are numerical values indicating features of a region included in the medical image;
- acquiring information on findings, representing features of the region included in the medical image by a language as candidates of reference information, by converting the image feature values indicating the features of the region;
- inferring a diagnostic name derived from the medical image using the information on the findings as an input;
- and
- presenting the information on the findings as a reason for the inference.
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A medical diagnosis support system comprising:
- one or more memories, and
- one or more processors in communication with the one or more memories, wherein the one or more memories and the one or more processors operate to implement:
- an image feature value acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a medical image, image feature values, wherein the image feature values are numerical values indicating features of a region included in the medical image;
- an inference unit configured to infer a diagnostic name derived from the medical image based on the image feature values indicating the features of the region included in the medical image;
- a presentation control unit configured to present information on findings, representing the features of the region included in the medical image by a language as reference information, as a reason for the inference performed by the inference unit, wherein the information on the findings is generated by converting the image feature values;
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- an acquisition unit configured to acquire the information on the findings based on the image feature values.
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A medical diagnosis support apparatus comprising:
- one or more memories, and
- one or more processors in communication with the one or more memories, wherein the one or more memories and the one or more processors operate to implement:
- an image feature value acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a medical image, image feature values, wherein the image feature values are numerical values indicating features of a region included in the medical image;
- an inference unit configured to infer a diagnostic name derived from the medical image using the image feature values indicating the features of the region included in the medical image as an input of an inference;
- an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on findings, representing the features of the region included in the medical image by a language as candidates of reference information, which are converted from the image feature values used by the inference unit as the input of the inference;
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- a presentation control unit configured to present the information on the findings acquired by the acquisition unit.
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A medical diagnosis support apparatus comprising:
- one or more memories, and
- one or more processors in communication with the one or more memories, wherein the one or more memories and the one or more processors operate to implement:
- an image feature value acquisition unit configured to acquire, from a medical image, image feature values, wherein the image feature values are numerical values indicating features of a region included in the medical image;
- an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on findings, representing features of the region included in the medical image by a language as candidates of reference information, by performing inference on the image feature values indicating the features of the region included in the medical image;
- an inference unit configured to infer a diagnostic name derived from a medical image using the information on the findings acquired by the acquisition unit based on the image feature values as an input;
- and
- a presentation control unit configured to present the information on the findings acquired by the acquisition unit.
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A medical diagnosis support apparatus comprising:
- one or more memories, and
- one or more processors in communication with the one or more memories, wherein the one or more memories and the one or more processors operate to implement:
- an inference unit configured to infer a diagnostic name derived from a medical image as an input of an inference;
- an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on findings, representing features of a region included in the medical image by a language as candidates of reference information, based on the medical image used by the inference unit as the input of the inference;
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- a presentation control unit configured to present the information on the findings acquired by the acquisition unit.
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