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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2021
Hoya Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Takao Makino, Tokyo, JP;
HOYA CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A processor for an endoscope includes an image processing unit that obtains a severity of a lesion in which a degree of progression is represented by one value, wherein the image processing unit includes a feature amount calculation unit configured to calculate a first pixel evaluation value indicating a degree of a first feature of appearance appearing in a lesion part, a representative value calculation unit configured to calculate a first representative evaluation value by integrating the first pixel evaluation values, and an integration unit configured to adjust an influence degree of the first representative evaluation value indicating a change in the severity with respect to a change in the first representative evaluation value based on information on a color component of an image, and calculate the severity of the lesion based on at least the first representative evaluation value by using the adjusted influence degree.