Fujifilm Healthcare Corporation

Kana Tanaka

Hisashi Takahashi

Taiga Goto

There are a medical image processing apparatus and a medical image processing method that are capable of maintaining the estimation accuracy of noise intensity even though a system noise ratio rises. A medical image processing apparatus includes a difference image generating unit that divides projection data obtained by applying radiation to an examinee to create a difference image between tomographic images reconstructed for every divided piece of projection data; a local variance computing unit that computes local variance in the difference image; and a noise estimation unit that corrects the local variance using a correction function found in advance to estimate noise intensity of a tomographic image of the examinee. The correction function includes system noise.

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Kashiwa, Japan

Kana Tanaka