Medical apparatus, method for controlling marker display in medical image and medical processor
AssigneeOlympus Medical Systems Corp.
InventorKatsuichi IMAIZUMI
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Abstract
A processor of an endoscope apparatus that is a medical apparatus generates two images that are a normal-light observation image and a special-light observation image that are obtained by picking up a return light, determines matching of observation fields of view with respect to the two images, generates a marker M that indicates a position on a living tissue for at least one of the two images based on the determination result, causes the generated two images to be displayed within a screen of a monitor, and displays the generated marker M by superimposing the marker M on at least one of the two images.
Claims17
A medical apparatus, comprising:
- an imager that picks up an image of a light from a living tissue;
- an image processor that generates a first image picked up in a first observation field of view in the imager, and a second image picked up in a second observation field of view in the imager;
- a discriminator that determines matching of the first observation field of view and the second observation field of view;
- a processor that performs processing for displaying markers indicating same positions for the first image and the second image when it is determined that the first observation field of view and the second observation field of view match each other in the discriminator;
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- a display that simultaneously displays the first image and the second image processed in the processor.
A method for controlling marker display in a medical image, comprising:
- picking up an image of a light from a living tissue, and generating a first image picked up in a first observation field of view, and a second image picked up in a second observation field of view;
- determining matching of the first observation field of view and the second observation field of view;
- performing processing for displaying markers indicating same positions for the first image and the second image when it is determined that the first observation field of view and the second observation field of view match each other;
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- simultaneously displaying the first image and the second image for which the processing is performed.
A medical processor that processes an image picked up by an imager that picks up an image of a light from a living tissue, comprising:
- an image processor that generates a first image picked up in a first observation field of view in the imager, and a second image obtained by being picked up in a second observation field of view in the imager;
- a discriminator that determines matching of the first observation field of view and the second observation field of view;
- a processor that performs processing for displaying markers indicating same positions for the first image and the second image when it is determined that the first observation field of view and the second observation field of view match each other in the discriminator;
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- an output section that outputs a signal for simultaneously displaying the first image and the second image processed in the processor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.