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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2013
Hitachi Aloka Medical, Ltd., Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoaki Chono, Mitaka, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention comprises: capturing a medical image of a subject by an image-capturing unit; generating compressed image data by compressing on the basis of a plurality of pixels of uncompressed image data, where the uncompressed image data is image data of the captured medical image of the subject, by an image data compression unit; setting a search range of the compressed image data and also setting a search range of the uncompressed image data, by a search range setting unit; and setting a region of interest for the medical image on the basis of the search range of the uncompressed image data and the search range of the compressed image data, by a region-of-interest setting unit.