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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2009
Applicants:
Masahide Nishiura, Machida, JP;
Tomoyuki Takeguchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Inventors:
Masahide Nishiura, Machida, JP;
Tomoyuki Takeguchi, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/05 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A position specifying unit specifies three diagnostic positions corresponding to respective vertexes of a reference triangle on a myocardial boundary in a diagnostic image, a calculating unit matches three training positions with the three diagnostic positions for each of a plurality of training images and compares the diagnostic image with training myocardial area boundary data to obtain a similarity, and an output unit outputs training myocardial area boundary data having the highest similarity.