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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2015
Applicant:
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/00 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30048 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30101 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus is provided for medical image processing. The processing of the medical image extracting a living valve image by analyzing a 3D image of an anatomical organ of a subject, specifying a distribution of an amount of calcium in the living valve image from CT pixel values in the living valve image, and specifying a distribution of difficulty levels of implanting an artificial valve to the anatomical organ based on a comparison between the amount of calcium and a predetermined value.