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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2016
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Takao Goto, Hino, JP;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus comprising an image producing unitfor producing an axial image of a body part to be imaged including an aorta and an esophagus; a map generating unitfor generating a map Mfor locating a region in which a probability that the aorta lies is high in the axial image; a detecting unitfor detecting a temporary position of the aorta based on the map M; and a deciding unitfor making a decision on whether or not the temporary position of the aorta falls within the region of the aorta in the axial image based on a distribution model DM containing information representing a reference position (x, y) of the esophagus and information representing a range over which the aorta distributes relative to the reference position (x, y) of the esophagus, and on the map M