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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2021
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Chizue Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Yukio Kaneko, Tokyo, JP;
FUJIFILM HEALTHCARE CORPORATION, Chiba, JP;
Abstract
Provided are an image processing apparatus, a medical imaging apparatus, and an image processing program that remove noise from an image having different noise levels depending on regions in the image at a low calculation cost, and enable high quality according to a preference of a reader. A plurality of image generators receive measurement data or a captured image obtained by an image data acquisition apparatus and generate different images for a same imaging range. An image selection and combination unit selects different image regions from a plurality of images generated by the plurality of image generators according to a predetermined region selection pattern, and generates one image by combining the images of the selected image regions.