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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2022
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus comprising a region extraction unit configured to perform region extraction processing of extracting a region from an input image acquired based on a radiographed image, wherein the region extraction unit comprises: a reduction unit configured to perform reduction processing for the input image to generate a reduced image; an inference unit configured to perform inference processing of, using the reduced image as an input, outputting an inferred image obtained by inferring the region in the reduced image; an enlargement unit configured to perform enlargement processing for the inferred image to generate an enlarged image; and a post-processing unit configured to perform post-processing of extracting the region from the enlarged image based on a feature of a shape of the region.