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Patent No.:

US 8437520 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013

Filed:

Oct. 09, 2009

Medical image processor and medical image processing method

Applicants:

Takahiro Manabe, Yokohama, JP;

Yasuko Fujisawa, Otawara, JP;

Inventors:

Takahiro Manabe, Yokohama, JP;

Yasuko Fujisawa, Otawara, JP;

Assignees:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, JP;

Attorney:

Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

Primary Examiner:

Gerald J O'Connor

Assistant Examiner:

Edward Winston, III

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A medical image processor includes: an extraction unit configured to extract a longitudinal line from three-dimensional volume data for a medical image, the longitudinal line representing how a tubular structure runs; a longitudinal cross-sectional image generator configured to generate multiple longitudinal cross-sectional images extending along the longitudinal line, the longitudinal cross-sectional images being cross-sectional images of the tubular structure; a short-axis cross-sectional image generator configured to generate multiple short-axis cross-sectional images intersecting the longitudinal line, the short-axis cross-sectional images being cross-sectional images of the tubular structure; a structure element detector configured to detect a specific structural element of the tubular structure from each of the plurality of short-axis cross-sectional images; and a correction unit configured to correct the specific structural element detected from each of the multiple short-axis cross-sectional images on a basis of the multiple longitudinal cross-sectional images.

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Manabe, Takahiro. (2013). Medical image processor and medical image processing method (U.S. Patent No. 8437520). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8437520

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