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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2017
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yasunori Morita, Tokyo, JP;
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
For the purpose of allowing fat to be stably distinguished irrespective of individual differences, so as to prevent damage to nerves that surround a target organ, an image processing device includes: a fat-image-region extracting unit that extracts a fat-image region that indicates a region, in a living-tissue image, where fat exists; a fat-color-component detecting unit that detects a fat-color-component amount that determines the color of fat, from the fat-image region extracted by the fat-image-region extracting unit; and a correction unit that corrects the signal intensity of the fat-image region extracted by the fat-image-region extracting unit on the basis of the fat-color-component amount detected by the fat-color-component detecting unit.