Olympus Medical Systems Corporation

Kouhei Ebe

Shunya Akimoto

Kensaku Mori

Takayuki Kitasaka

Takeshi Wada

According to the invention, a VOI (Volume of Interest) generation setting section disposed in an endoscope insertion support apparatus comprises a VOI setting function section, a VOI extending function section, a VOI direction determining function section, a VOI branch determining function section, a VOI resetting function section, a VOI information storage function section, a VOI size determining function section and a VOI branch extracting function section. This configuration enables a VOI to be effectively set in a tubular organ having a strictured part and tubular path area information on the tubular organ to be extracted.

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Hino, Japan

Kouhei Ebe