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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2020
Applicant:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Hisashi Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Taiga Gotou, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
FUJIFILM HEALTHCARE CORPORATION, Chiba, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 5/002 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20182 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30004 (2013.01);
Abstract
A medical image processing apparatus reducing noise of a medical image acquired includes a smoothing unit forming a smoothed image of the medical image, a route forming unit forming a route that is a pixel group positioned continuously in the smoothed image and fulfills a route condition, and a noise reducing unit extracting a pixel group corresponding to the route in the medical image and reducing noise of the medical image based on the extracted pixel group.