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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
May. 06, 2016
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hironaka Miyaki, Hino, JP;
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An ultrasound observation apparatus includes: a first generation unit that computes a received signal based on first and second echo signals obtained by transmitting ultrasound signals having different phases along a same line to a specimen and reflection of the ultrasound signals from the specimen, and generates a first ultrasound image having first display mode, using the received signal; an extraction unit that calculates first and second features based on frequency spectra of the first and second echo signals, and extracts a third feature from the first and second features so as to be associated with a pixel position in image; a second generation unit that generates a second ultrasound image having second display mode at a pixel position where the third feature is not less than threshold; and a composition unit that generates a composite image by combining the first and second ultrasound images at the pixel position.