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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
May. 01, 2015
Kowa Company, Ltd., Nagoya-shi, Aichi, JP;
Toshiaki Nakagawa, Higashimurayama, JP;
KOWA COMPANY, LTD., , JP;
Abstract
An image processing device comprises an enhancement processing unit that enhances a speckle pattern in an ocular fundus tomographic image. A region-of-interest setting unit sets a desired region in the ocular fundus tomographic image with the enhanced speckle pattern as a region-of-interest, and a feature value extracting unit extracts a feature value of the speckle pattern in the region-of-interest. A disease determining unit makes disease determination for an ocular fundus on the basis of the feature value, and a mapping unit maps, in the ocular fundus tomographic image, a site of the ocular fundus that is determined to have a disease. An image processing method comprises enhancing a speckle pattern in an ocular fundus tomographic image; setting a desired region in the ocular fundus tomographic image with the enhanced speckle pattern as a region-of-interest; extracting a feature value of the speckle pattern in the region-of-interest; and making disease determination for an ocular fundus on the basis of the feature value.