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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2015
Applicant:
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kenta Yamada, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
FUJIFILM Corporation, Minato-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/05 (2006.01); A61B 5/055 (2006.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.01); A61B 1/267 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/055 (2013.01); A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 34/10 (2016.02); G06T 19/003 (2013.01); A61B 1/2676 (2013.01); A61B 6/032 (2013.01); A61B 6/5217 (2013.01); A61B 2034/107 (2016.02); A61B 2576/02 (2013.01); G06T 2210/41 (2013.01);
Abstract
Extracting a tubular structure from volume data, determining a target region which should be reached by an endoscope through the tubular structure, extracting, among plurality on a route of the tubular structure, a point that satisfies a given condition as a target point that should be reached by a distal end portion of the endoscope, and identifying and determining a route of the tubular structure from a predetermined start point in the tubular structure to the extracted target point as a route through which the endoscope should be passed.