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Medical image processing apparatus and method of processing medical image

US7912269B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 30, 2005
Grant dateMar 22, 2011
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Expiry dateDec 2, 2029

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  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA61B6/507
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

According to a medical image processing apparatus, a data of a region of the blood vessel is removed from respectives of a plurality of sheets of original image data collected by scanning a subject injected with a contrast medium by a medical modality, thereafter, a pixel value of the region of the blood vessel is substituted for by pixel values of a plurality of pixels present at a surrounding of the region, the plurality of sheets of original image data including the substituted region of the blood vessel are subjected to a preprocessing including a noise removing processing and a pixel bundling processing, and circulation dynamic state information of perfusion of a substantial portion is analyzed from the plurality of sheets of original image data subjected to the preprocessing.

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