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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2015
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, JP;
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, JP;
Yanhua Wang, Beijing, CN;
Chao Cong, Beijing, CN;
Yanli Wang, Beijing, CN;
Shaobin Wang, Beijing, CN;
Qiuying Dong, Beijing, CN;
KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA, Minato-ku, JP;
TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara-Shi, JP;
Abstract
A moving object contour tracking apparatus includes a contour tracking section for performing, by taking an initial contour of the moving object in a predetermined image slice as a starting contour, contour tracking in a first time direction to acquire a first contour of the moving object and contour tracking in a second time direction to acquire a second contour of the moving object in each image slice; a contour comparison section for calculating, in the predetermined image slice, a similarity between the first contour and the initial contour and a similarity between the second contour and the initial contour; and a contour correction section for taking the contours in the image slices that are acquired in a contour tracking direction corresponding to the greater one of the two similarities as the contours of the moving object in the respective image slices.