Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Medical image processing device, method and program
- Patent Title (中): 医疗图像处理装置,方法和程序
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Application No.: US13629232Application Date: 2012-09-27
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Publication No.: US08693753B2Publication Date: 2014-04-08
- Inventor: Keigo Nakamura
- Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
- Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: McGinn IP Law Group, PLLC
- Priority: JP2011-217553 20110930
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06T7/00 ; G06F19/00

Abstract:
A medical image processing device for extracting an endocardium of a left ventricle from 3D image data representing the left ventricle is provided. The device includes: a blood region extracting unit to extract a blood region in the left ventricle from the image data; a convex and concave points identifying unit to find a convex hull from sample points on a contour of the extracted blood region and identify convex points forming the convex hull and concave points, which are sample points other than the convex points; and an endocardium determining unit to deform the contour of the blood region by moving at least a part of the concave points outward from the blood region by an amount determined based on a positional relationship among each concave point and the convex points located around the concave point and determine a deformed contour of the blood region to be the endocardium.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130083982A1 MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM Public/Granted day:2013-04-04
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