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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2024
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Stephanie Sutoko, Tokyo, JP;
Hirokazu Atsumori, Tokyo, JP;
Ayako Nishimura, Tokyo, JP;
Tsukasa Funane, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiko Kandori, Tokyo, JP;
HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes: an inner region setting unit and a peripheral region setting unit setting, for an inner region in a medical image, a peripheral region in the medical image; an intensity value group probability distribution calculation unit calculating an inner region histogram for the inner region and calculating a peripheral region histogram for the peripheral region; a probability difference calculation unit calculating a probability difference distribution by calculating a difference value between the inner region histogram and the peripheral region histogram for each predetermined intensity value; a component image processing unit generating a component image based on the medical image; a detection range setting unit setting a detection range to each of the component images; a mask setting unit selecting a pixel to be highlighted for each of the component images based on the detection range; and a display processing unit outputting the highlighted component image.