Medical image processing apparatus and method of processing medical image
US7912269B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 30, 2005 |
| Grant date | Mar 22, 2011 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 2, 2029 |
Classification
- 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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