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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2019
Canon Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, JP;
Shumpei Ohashi, Otawara, JP;
CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara, JP;
Abstract
A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry configured: to sequentially acquire X-ray images; to set a unit number of frames used as a unit during image processing; and to sequentially generate images in each of which a pixel value of each pixel expresses either the largest pixel value or the smallest pixel value among corresponding pixels in X-ray images corresponding to the unit number of frames, on the basis of the X-ray images corresponding to the unit number of frames including each of new X-ray image that is sequentially acquired and at least one X-ray image acquired before the new X-ray image.