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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2019
Canon Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara, JP;
Kota Aoyagi, Nasushiobara, JP;
CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara, JP;
Abstract
In one embodiment, a medical image processing apparatus includes a memory storing a predetermined program and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured, by executing the predetermined program, to acquire a plurality of images that are obtained by imaging a same object and are different in imaging time, classify tissue property of the object into a plurality of tissue-property classes by analyzing the tissue property of the object based on pixel values of respective regions of the plurality of images, assign the classified tissue-property classes to the respective regions of the plurality of images, and estimate change in disease state of the object from change in the classified tissue-property classes in respectively corresponding regions of the plurality of images.