Olympus Medical Systems Corporation

Nagoya University

Takayuki Kitasaka

Kensaku Mori

Shunya Akimoto

Daisuke Deguchi

Takeshi Wada

Kouhei Ebe

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.

Endoscope insertion support system and endoscope insertion support method

Medical image observation assisting systemincluding CT-image-data retrieving portion, CT-image-data storing portion, information extracting portion, anatomical information DB, point of view/line of view setting portion, luminal organ image generating portion, anatomical nomenclature information generating portion, branch specifying portion, image synthesizing and displaying portionand user I/F control portion. The point of view/line of view setting portionsets a point of view and line of view for observing an external profile of a luminal organ, on the basis of structure information of the luminal organ extracted by the information extracting portion, while a point of interest is kept substantially on a centerline of the organ.

System that assists in observing a luminal organ using the structure of the luminal organ

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Nagoya, Japan

Takayuki Kitasaka