Image region mapping device, 3D model generating apparatus, image region mapping method, and image region mapping program

An image region mapping method of mapping a plurality of image regions of a blood vessel, the method comprising:

• by irradiating the blood vessel through which a contrast medium is passing with X-rays of equal intensity at first and second photographing angles different from each other, with an X-ray image acquiring unit, acquiring an X-ray image set including a first X-ray image at the first photographing angle and a second X-ray image at the second photographing angle;
• with a first X-ray absorption property acquiring unit, acquiring, as an absorption property, an absorbed X-ray amount in a first image region corresponding to a portion of the blood vessel in the first X-ray image, from brightness of the contrast medium;
• with a second X-ray absorption property acquiring unit, acquiring, as an absorption property, an absorbed X-ray amount in each of a plurality of second image regions corresponding to a portion of the blood vessel in the second X-ray image as candidate corresponding image regions of the first image region, from brightness of the contrast medium;
• with a similarity degree calculator, calculating a similarity degree between the absorbed X-ray amount acquired by the first X-ray absorption property acquiring unit and each of the plurality of absorbed X-ray amounts acquired by the second X-ray absorption property acquiring unit;
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• with a corresponding region determiner, determining the second image region having a maximum similarity degree out of the similarity degrees calculated by the similarity degree calculator as a corresponding region of the first image region.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium including an image region mapping program configured to map a plurality of image regions of a blood vessel, the program causing a computer to function as:

• an X-ray image acquiring unit configured to, by irradiating the blood vessel through which a contrast medium is passing with X-rays at first and second photographing angles different from each other, acquire an X-ray image set including a first X-ray image at the first photographing angle and a second X-ray image at the second photographing angle;
• a first X-ray absorption property acquiring unit configured to acquire, as an absorption property, an absorbed X-ray amount in a first image region corresponding to a portion of the blood vessel in the first X-ray image, from brightness of the contrast medium;
• a second X-ray absorption property acquiring unit configured to acquire, as an absorption property, an absorbed X-ray amount in each of a plurality of second image regions corresponding to a portion of the blood vessel in the second X-ray image as candidate corresponding image regions of the first image region, from brightness of the contrast medium;
• a similarity degree calculator configured to calculate a similarity degree between the absorbed X-ray amount acquired by the first X-ray absorption property acquiring unit and each of the plurality of absorbed X-ray amounts acquired by the second X-ray absorption property acquiring unit;
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• a corresponding region determiner configured to determine one of the second image regions corresponding to the first image region in accordance with the similarity degrees calculated by the similarity degree calculator.