Image diagnosis support apparatus and image diagnosis support program
AssigneeHitachi Medical Corporation
InventorsToshihiro Ogura, Yoshihiro Goto
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Abstract
An image diagnosis support apparatus according to the invention comprises an adipose distribution data computing device which figures out adipose distribution data measured of a desired site in a subject from at least one medical image; an abnormal shadow candidate detecting device which detects an abnormal shadow candidate based on the figured-out adipose distribution data; and a display device which displays the abnormal shadow candidate detected by the abnormal shadow candidate detecting device and the medical image in a manner of being related to each other.
Claims20
An image diagnosis support apparatus comprising:
- an adipose distribution data computing device which figures out adipose distribution data and a local maximum point of the figured-out adipose distribution data, measured of a desired site in a subject from at least one medical image;
- an abnormal shadow candidate detecting device which detects an abnormal shadow candidate based on the local maximum point of the figured-out adipose distribution data;
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- a display device which displays the abnormal shadow candidate detected by the abnormal shadow candidate detecting device and the medical image in a manner of being related to each other.
The image diagnosis support apparatus according to claim l, wherein:
- the abnormal shadow candidate detecting device detects positional information on a presence of the abnormal shadow candidate in the subject;
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- the display device displays a message indicating the detected positional information.
An image diagnosis support apparatus comprising:
- an adipose distribution data computing device which figures out adipose distribution data measured of a desired site in a subject from at least one medical image;
- an abnormal shadow candidate detecting device which detects an abnormal shadow candidate based on the figured-out adipose distribution data;
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- a display device which displays the abnormal shadow candidate detected by the abnormal shadow candidate detecting device and the medical image in a manner of being related to each other, wherein:
- the abnormal shadow candidate detecting device detects in advance at least one local maximum point in the adipose distribution data and successively detects the abnormal shadow candidate for each of the pre-detected local maximum points.
A method performed by an image diagnosis support apparatus, the method comprising:
- (a) determining, by an adipose distribution data computing part of the image diagnosis support apparatus, adipose distribution data and a local maximum point of the adipose distribution data, measured of a desired site in a subject from at least one medical image;
- (b) detecting, by an abnormal shadow candidate detecting part of the image diagnosis support apparatus, an abnormal shadow candidate based on the local maximum point of the adipose distribution data determined in (a);
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- (c) displaying the abnormal shadow candidate detected in (b) and the medical image manner of being related to each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.