Medical image processing method
AssigneeZiosoft, Inc.
InventorKazuhiko Matsumoto
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a medical image processing method for manipulating a curve using a pointing device. The method includes: (a) accepting a first point on the curve specified by the pointing device; (b) reading a first time; (c) reading a second time when a point specified by the pointing device is moved to a second point from the first point; (d) determining a new curve based on a position of the second point, the second time, and the first time; (e) displaying said new curve; (f) reading a third time and a third point specified by the pointing device; (g) determining a further new curve based on a position of the third point, the third time, and the first time or the second time; and (h) displaying said further new curve.
Claims20
A medical image processing method for manipulating a curve using a pointing device, the method comprising:
- (a) accepting a first point on the curve specified by the pointing device;
- (b) reading a first time;
- (c) reading a second time when a point specified by the pointing device is moved to a second point from the first point;
- (d) determining a new curve based on a position of the second point, the second time, and the first time;
- (e) displaying said new curve;
- (f) reading a third time and a third point specified by the pointing device;
- (g) determining a further new curve based on a position of the third point, the third time, and the first time or the second time;
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- (h) displaying said further new curve.
A medical imaging apparatus, comprising:
- a volume data generating section that generates volume data;
- a curve generation section that generates a curve based on the volume data;
- a user interface section that generates a control signal in response to a signal from a pointing device;
- a curve adjustment section that manipulates the curve generated in the curve generation section based on the control signal generated in the user interface section, the curve adjustment section comprising:
- a first time record processing section that records a first time when a first position on the curve specified by the pointing device is accepted;
- a second time record processing section that records a second time when a point specified by the pointing device is moved to a second point from the first point;
- a third time record processing section that records a third time when a point specified by the point device is moved to a third point from the second point;
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- a curve determination processing section that determines:
- (i) a new curve based on a position of the second point, the second time and the first time;
- and (ii) a further new curve based on a position of the third point, the third time, and the first time or the second time, and
- a display section that displays the new curve or the further new curve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.