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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2017
Applicant:
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0016 (2013.01); G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G06T 7/248 (2017.01); G06T 2207/30048 (2013.01);
Abstract
A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes an estimation circuitry and a tracking circuitry. The estimation circuitry is configured to estimate the activity of the myocardium across a plurality of images at different time phases from a group of images where a plurality of images containing a myocardium are chronologically arranged. The tracking circuitry is configured to set a search range for tracking the myocardium in the group according to the activity of the myocardium and perform the tracking.