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US 9,002,087 B2Granted
Method and apparatus for processing image, ultrasound diagnosis apparatus, and medical imaging system
AssigneeSamsung Medison Co., Ltd.
InventorJi-hye Baek
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus including an image data acquiring unit for acquiring ultrasound image data indicating information about an object; a standard image generating unit for generating an ultrasound standard image of the ultrasound image data; and a display unit for displaying the ultrasound standard image.
Claims15
An image processing apparatus, comprising:
- an image data acquiring unit for acquiring ultrasound image data indicating information about an object;
- a database for storing a plurality of ultrasound reference images with respect to at least one standard plane, for information about human body regions;
- a search unit for recognizing information about a human body region of the object from the ultrasound image data, and searching for an ultrasound reference image, among the plurality of ultrasound reference images, corresponding to the recognized information about the human body region of the object;
- a standard image generating unit for generating an ultrasound standard image based on the recognized information about a human body region of the object from the ultrasound image data, regardless of a user's manipulation of probe orientation, by performing an image registration process on the ultrasound image data with the searched ultrasound reference image;
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- a display unit for displaying the generated ultrasound standard image.
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An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus, comprising:
- a probe for acquiring ultrasound image data indicating information about an object;
- a database for storing a plurality of ultrasound reference images with respect to at least one standard plane, for information about human body regions;
- a search unit for recognizing information about a human body region of the object from the ultrasound image data, and searching for an ultrasound reference image, among the plurality of ultrasound reference images, corresponding to the recognized information about the human body region of the object;
- a main system for generating an ultrasound standard image based on the recognized information about a human body region of the object from the ultrasound image data, regardless of a user's manipulation of probe orientation, by performing an image registration process on the ultrasound image data with the searched ultrasound reference image;
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- a display unit for displaying the generated ultrasound standard image.
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A medical image system, comprising:
- an image processing apparatus for acquiring ultrasound image data indicating information about an object, for recognizing information about a human body region of the object from the ultrasound image data, for searching for an ultrasound reference image corresponding to the recognized information about the human body region of the object among a plurality of ultrasound reference images stored in a database, and for generating an ultrasound standard image based on the recognized information about a human body region of the object from the ultrasound image data, regardless of a user's manipulation of probe orientation, by performing an image registration process on the ultrasound image data with the searched ultrasound reference image;
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- a diagnosis unit for performing a diagnosis technique different from a diagnosis technique of acquiring the ultrasound image data,
- wherein the image processing apparatus displays the generated ultrasound standard image together with at least one comparison image that is generated by using the diagnosis technique different from the diagnosis technique of acquiring the ultrasound image data.
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A method of processing an image, comprising:
- storing a plurality of ultrasound reference images with respect to at least one standard plane, for information about human body regions, in data;
- acquiring ultrasound image data indicating information about an object;
- recognizing information about a human body region of the object from the ultrasound image data;
- searching the database for an ultrasound reference image, among the plurality of ultrasound reference images, corresponding to the recognized information about the human body region of the object;
- generating an ultrasound standard image based on the recognized information about a human body region of the object from the ultrasound image data, regardless of a user's manipulation of probe orientation, by performing an image registration process on the acquired ultrasound image data with the searched ultrasound reference image;
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- displaying the generated ultrasound standard image.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.