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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2019
Applicant:
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Masahiro Saikou, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/73 (2017.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/31 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/000094 (2022.02); A61B 1/00045 (2013.01); A61B 1/31 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01); G06T 7/74 (2017.01); G06T 2207/30028 (2013.01);
Abstract
A location estimation apparatusincludes: a feature amount extraction unitconfigured to extract, a feature amount of a living-body internal image, from the living-body internal image captured using an endoscope; a similarity degree output unitconfigured to output similarity degrees with a plurality of locations inside a living body using the feature amount; and an estimation unitconfigured to estimate a location of the captured living-body internal image inside the living body using the similarity degrees.