Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program therefor
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroshi Imamura
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Abstract
Provided is an image processing apparatus configured to process an image of a fundus of an eye to accurately measure thicknesses of membranes that form a blood vessel wall of an eye. The image processing apparatus includes: an image acquiring unit configured to acquire an image of an eye; a vessel feature acquiring unit configured to acquire membrane candidate points that form an arbitrary wall of a blood vessel based on the acquired image; a cell identifying unit configured to identify a cell that forms the wall of the blood vessel based on the membrane candidate points; and a measuring position acquiring unit configured to identify a measuring position regarding the wall of the blood vessel based on a position of the identified cell.
Claims10
An image processing apparatus, comprising:
- an image acquiring unit configured to acquire an image of an eye;
- a vessel feature acquiring unit configured to acquire membrane candidate points that form a wall of a blood vessel based on the acquired image;
- a cell identifying unit configured to identify a cell that forms the wall of the blood vessel based on the membrane candidate points;
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- a measuring position acquiring unit configured to identify a measuring position regarding the wall of the blood vessel based on a position of the identified cell.
An image processing method, comprising:
- an image acquiring step of acquiring an image of an eye;
- a vessel feature acquiring step of acquiring membrane candidate points that form a wall of a blood vessel based on the acquired image;
- a cell identifying step of identifying a cell that forms the wall of the blood vessel based on the membrane candidate points;
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- a measuring position identifying step of identifying a measuring position regarding the wall of the blood vessel based on a position of the identified cell.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.