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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2013
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Hiroyuki Sekiguchi, Kyoto, JP;
Akinobu Shimizu, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10088 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20072 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30064 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30096 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus which extracts a lesion having a ground glass opacity from an image includes a change unit which changes a pixel value corresponding to a candidate region for the ground glass opacity to a predetermined pixel value range, a first feature amount extraction unit which obtains a first feature amount from the image, the pixel value of which is changed, and an extraction unit which extracts the lesion from the image based on the first feature amount.