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Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 21, 2014
Applicants:

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, JP;

Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara-shi, JP;

Inventors:

Kouji Ando, Tochigi, JP;

Tatsuru Kurosaki, Tochigi, JP;

Yasunori Ooshima, Tochigi, JP;

Nobuhide Ol, Tochigi, JP;

Takashi Koyakumaru, Tochigi, JP;

Mitsuo Akiyama, Tochigi, JP;

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); A61B 8/5215 (2013.01); A61B 8/461 (2013.01); A61B 8/463 (2013.01);
Abstract

A medical image diagnosis apparatus of an embodiment includes: an image generation unit configured to generate a first image which is an original image, from a medical image taken by a medical imaging unit; an image conversion unit configured to process the first image to output a second image where a color tone of a predetermined region in the first image is kept and a color tone of a region other than the predetermined region is converted; and an image output unit configured to supply the second image to an output apparatus.


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