Ultrasound diagnosis apparatus, medical image processing apparatus, and medical image processing method

A medical image processing apparatus comprising processing circuitry configured:

• to generate a piece of reflected-wave data by performing a phased addition process while using reflected-wave signals generated by transmitting an ultrasound wave with respect to a mutually same scanning line and to speculate a degree of saturation of the reflected-wave signals observed before the phased addition process on a basis of a relationship between signals and noise in a data sequence represented by a set made up of pieces of the reflected-wave data;
• to output a result of the speculation;
• and
• to cause a display to display data based on the result of the speculation.

A medical image processing method implemented by a computer, comprising:

• generating a piece of reflected-wave data by performing a phased addition process while using reflected-wave signals generated by transmitting an ultrasound wave with respect to a mutually same scanning line;
• speculating a degree of saturation of the reflected-wave signals observed before the phased addition process on a basis of a relationship between signals and noise in a data sequence represented by a set made up of pieces of the reflected-wave data;
• outputting a result of the speculation;
• and
• causing a display to display data based on the result of the speculation.