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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2016
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Tsuyoshi Sakamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Yusuke Imasugi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); A61B 6/50 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30061 (2013.01);
Abstract
Medical image data is identified, and a lung field region and an emphysema region in each of a plurality of tomographic images are extracted. A mechanism is provided, which is capable of calculating the ratio of the emphysema region to the lung field region, and displaying an image of the medical image data and a value representing the calculated ratio in association with each other.