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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2024
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Saikou, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided are a surgery assistance apparatus, a surgery assistance method, and a computer readable recording medium that includes a surgery assistance program recorded thereon that improve the accuracy of endoscopic surgery by identifying a target part image. A surgery assistance apparatusincludes a feature amount calculation unitthat calculates, from a human-body internal image captured using an endoscope, a feature amount of a target part image corresponding to a target part, a similarity degree calculation unitthat calculates a similarity degree of the features amount between different human-body internal images, and an identification unitthat identifies the target part image in each of the different human-body internal images if the similarity degree is greater than or equal to a predetermined value.