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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2007
Yoshiyuki Moriya, Minato-ku, JP;
Hideyuki Sakaida, Minato-ku, JP;
Yoshiyuki Moriya, Minato-ku, JP;
Hideyuki Sakaida, Minato-ku, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A medical image processing apparatus capable of aligning, among plural series of images, slice images included in the series easily in a short time. The medical image processing apparatus is connected to at least one display unit that displays a medical image on a screen based on inputted image data, for correlating anatomically tomographic positions of axial images among plural series of images, and includes: a standard coordinate system and feature quantity storage unit for storing a standard coordinate system in which coordinate values correlated to anatomically tomographic positions of an object to be inspected are set; and a feature quantity computing unit, a coordinate value searching unit, and a slice coordinate determining unit for providing coordinate values in the standard coordinate system to the axial images included in each of the plural series of images.