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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2013
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2010
Tomoaki Chono, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoaki Chono, Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi Medical Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a medical image display method for displaying a tomographic image obtained by scanning an image of a cross-section of an organ of an object and finding the volume of an inner cavity region surrounded by the inner wall surface of the inner cavity of the organ on the basis of the displayed tomographic image, comprising a step that segmentizes the inner cavity region into a first inner cavity region and a second inner cavity region, a step that calculates volume of the first inner cavity using the disk method, a step that calculates volume of the second inner cavity region using the pseudo disk method, a step that calculates the entire inner cavity volume by summing the calculated volumes of the first and the second inner cavity, and a step that displays the first and the second inner cavity volumes and/or the entire inner cavity volume.