Apparatus and method for correcting a contour of an object in a medical image
AssigneeCanon Medical Systems Corporation
InventorsKodai Hirayama, Yasuhiko Abe, Koji Ando
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, there is provided a medical image processing apparatus and method for estimating a contour of a desired structure, such as a cardiac muscle, based on a medical image, such as an ultrasound image, and cross section information of the desired structure, receiving a desired correction mode from among multiple correction modes for correcting the estimated contour, each of the multiple correction modes having a correction amount set corresponding to the information on the cross section, and correcting the estimated contour according to the desired correction mode.
Claims16
A medical image processing apparatus, comprising:
- processing circuitry configured to:
- estimate a contour of a structure included in a medical image;
- receive a selection of one correction mode among multiple correction modes sequentially displayed one by one on a selection screen of a display;
- correct the estimated contour according to correction information associated with the selected one correction mode and comprising at least a correction direction and a correction amount;
- and
- cause the corrected contour to be displayed on the medical image,
- wherein the structure is a cardiac muscle,
- the contour includes a first contour corresponding to an inner side of the cardiac muscle and a second contour corresponding to an outer side of the cardiac muscle, and
- correction information associated with a first correction mode among the multiple correction modes and correction information associated with a second correction mode differing from the first correction mode among the multiple correction modes differ from each other in at least one of the correction direction and the correction amount.
A medical image processing apparatus, comprising:
- processing circuitry configured to
- estimate a contour of a structure included in a medical image;
- receive a selection of one correction mode among multiple correction modes sequentially displayed one by one on a selection screen of a display;
- correct the estimated contour according to correction information associated with the selected one correction mode and comprising at least a correction direction and a correction amount;
- and
- cause the corrected contour to be displayed on the medical image,
- wherein a plurality of the medical images are used, and
- the processing circuitry is further configured to select, in response to receiving the selection of the correction mode for one of the medical images, one or more correction modes for one or more remaining images of the medical images.
A non-transitory processor-readable storage medium comprising a program which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform a method, comprising:
- estimating a contour of a structure included in a medical image;
- receiving a selection of one correction mode among multiple correction modes sequentially displayed one by one on a selection screen of a display;
- correcting the estimated contour according to correction information associated with the selected one correction mode and comprising at least a correction direction and a correction amount;
- and
- causing the corrected contour to be displayed on the medical image,
- wherein the structure is a cardiac muscle,
- the contour includes a first contour corresponding to an inner side of the cardiac muscle and a second contour corresponding to an outer side of the cardiac muscle, and
- correction information associated with a first correction mode among the multiple correction modes and correction information associated with a second correction mode differing from the first correction mode among the multiple correction modes differ from each other in at least one of the correction direction and the correction amount.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.