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AssigneeSamsung Medison Co., Ltd.
InventorJun-sang Yoo
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Provided are an apparatus for processing a medical image, and a method of processing a medical image by using the apparatus. The apparatus includes: an image obtainer that receives a first image obtained by photographing an object; and an image processor that calculates a scaling factor for adjusting a magnification of the first image based on statistic information corresponding to the object and generates a second image to be displayed by normalizing a size of the object by applying the calculated scaling factor to the first image.
An apparatus for processing a medical image, the apparatus comprising:
A method of processing a medical image, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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Geometric image transformations in the plane of the image: scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
Inspection of images, e.g. flaw detection: biomedical image inspection
Biomedical image processing: fetus; Embryo
Image data processing or generation, in general
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1. Field
One or more embodiments of the present invention relate to an apparatus for processing a medical image, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method of processing a medical image, which are used to display an object after normalizing a size of the object.
2. Description of the Related Art
These and/or other aspects will become apparent and more readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an apparatus for processing a medical image, according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an apparatus for processing a medical image, according to another embodiment of the present invention;
Advantages and features of one or more embodiments of the present invention and methods of accomplishing the same may be understood more readily by reference to the following detailed description of the embodiments and the accompanying drawings. In this regard, the present embodiments may have different forms and should not be construed as being limited to the descriptions set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete and will fully convey the concept of the present embodiments to one of ordinary skill in the art, and the present invention will only be defined by the appended claims. Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout the specification.
Hereinafter, the terms used in the specification will now be briefly defined, and the embodiments will now be described in detail.
All terms including descriptive or technical terms which are used herein should be construed as having meanings that are obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art. However, the terms may have different meanings according to an intention of one of ordinary skill in the art, precedent cases, or the appearance of new technologies. Also, some terms may be arbitrarily selected by the applicant, and in this case, the meaning of the selected terms will be described in detail in the detailed description of the invention. Thus, the terms used herein have to be defined based on the meaning of the terms together with the description throughout the specification.