Medical image diagnostic device and method for setting region of interest therefor
AssigneeHitachi Aloka Medical, Ltd.
InventorTomoaki Chono
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Abstract
The present invention comprises: capturing a medical image of a subject by an image-capturing unit; generating compressed image data by compressing on the basis of a plurality of pixels of uncompressed image data, where the uncompressed image data is image data of the captured medical image of the subject, by an image data compression unit; setting a search range of the compressed image data and also setting a search range of the uncompressed image data, by a search range setting unit; and setting a region of interest for the medical image on the basis of the search range of the uncompressed image data and the search range of the compressed image data, by a region-of-interest setting unit.
Claims15
A medical image diagnostic device comprising:
- an image capturing unit that captures a medical image of a subject;
- an image-data compression unit that uses image data of the captured medical image of the subject as uncompressed image data and generates compressed image data by compression based on a plurality of pixels of the uncompressed image data;
- a search-range setting unit that sets a search range of the compressed image data and sets a search range of the uncompressed image data;
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- a region-of-interest setting unit that sets a region of interest in the medical image based on the search range of the uncompressed image data and the search range of the compressed image data.
A region-of-interest setting method of a medical image diagnostic device including:
- capturing a medical image of a subject by an image capturing unit;
- using image data of the captured medical image of the subject as uncompressed image data and generating compressed image data by compression based on a plurality of pixels of the uncompressed image data by an image-data compression unit;
- setting a search range of the compressed image data and setting a search range of the uncompressed image data by the search-range setting unit;
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- setting a region of interest in the medical image based on the search range of the uncompressed image data and the search range of the compressed image data by a region-of-interest setting unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.