Medical Image Processing Apparatus, Method and Program
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorYoshinori ITAI
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Abstract
A three-dimensional image is obtained, and a relative degree of interest is set at each of plural positions on a path connecting the plural positions in the three-dimensional image. A discrimination condition for identifying, based on the set degree or degrees of interest, a virtual endoscopic image or images to be generated from the three-dimensional image is obtained, and only the virtual endoscopic image or images identified based on the discrimination condition are generated based on the three-dimensional image.
Claims18
A medical image processing apparatus comprising:
- an image obtainment unit that obtains a three-dimensional image obtained by imaging a patient;
- a degree-of-interest setting unit that sets a relative degree of interest at each of a plurality of positions on a path connecting the plurality of positions in the three-dimensional image;
- a discrimination condition obtainment unit that obtains a discrimination condition for identifying, based on the set degree or degrees of interest, a virtual endoscopic image or images to be generated from the three-dimensional image;
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- an image generation unit that generates, based on the three-dimensional image, only the virtual endoscopic image or images identified based on the discrimination condition.
A medical image processing apparatus comprising:
- an image obtainment unit that obtains a three-dimensional image obtained by imaging a patient;
- a degree-of-interest setting unit that sets a relative degree of interest at each of a plurality of positions on a path connecting the plurality of positions in the three-dimensional image;
- an image generation unit that generates a plurality of virtual endoscopic images from the three-dimensional image;
- a discrimination condition obtainment unit that obtains a discrimination condition for identifying, based on the set degrees of interest, one or more of the generated virtual endoscopic images to be displayed;
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- a display control unit that displays only one or more of the generated virtual endoscopic images that have been identified based on the discrimination condition.
A medical image processing method to be performed by a medical image processing apparatus, the method comprising:
- the step of obtaining a three-dimensional image obtained by imaging a patient;
- the step of setting a relative degree of interest at each of a plurality of positions on a path connecting the plurality of positions in the three-dimensional image;
- the step of obtaining a discrimination condition for identifying, based on the set degree or degrees of interest, a virtual endoscopic image or images to be generated from the three-dimensional image;
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- the step of generating, based on the three-dimensional image, only the virtual endoscopic image or images identified based on the discrimination condition.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stored therein a medical image processing program for causing a computer to function as:
- an image obtainment unit that obtains a three-dimensional image obtained by imaging a patient;
- a degree-of-interest setting unit that sets a relative degree of interest at each of a plurality of positions on a path connecting the plurality of positions in the three-dimensional image;
- a discrimination condition obtainment unit that obtains a discrimination condition for identifying, based on the set degree or degrees of interest, a virtual endoscopic image or images to be generated from the three-dimensional image;
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- an image generation unit that generates, based on the three-dimensional image, only the virtual endoscopic image or images identified based on the discrimination condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.