Image processing method and image processing apparatus
AssigneeHitachi Medical Corporation
InventorsMichio OIKAWA, Hanae YOSHIDA, Tomohiro NAGAO, Jiangtao GAO, Qizhong LIN, Yingjie HAN
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Abstract
The present invention proposes an image processing method and an image processing apparatus, in which an object of interest is selected in a three-dimensional scene by using information on a section parallel to a sight line, and a surface is generated to divide the line of sight passing through the object into two parts, so as to display the user-interested object through an opaque area by establishing different rendering parameters for the two parts of the sight line.
Claims16
An image processing apparatus, comprising:
- a segmentation curved surface generation unit for generating a segmentation curved surface passing through a designated control point and intersecting with a first predetermined direction in accordance with three-dimensional image data;
- a first two-dimensional image generation unit for generating a first two-dimensional image in accordance with the projection of the three-dimensional image data on the segmentation curved surface;
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- a display unit for displaying the first two-dimensional image generated by the first two-dimensional image generation unit.
An image processing method, comprising the steps of:
- generating a segmentation curved surface passing through a designated control point and intersecting with a first predetermined direction in accordance with three-dimensional image data;
- generating a first two-dimensional images in accordance with the projection of the three-dimensional image data on the segmentation curved surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.