Title:
DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR LESION IN LUNG FIELD, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTROLLING SAME
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2017/150497
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
Disclosed is a novel diagnosis support means that has excellent performance of diagnosing a lesion in a lung field such as interstitial pneumonia and enables differentiation between IPF and NSIP which has been regarded as very difficult. The diagnosis support system according to the present invention for a lesion in a lung filed comprises: an image acquisition unit for acquiring a breast tomographic image obtained by photographing a subject; a lung peripheral region extraction unit for, from the breast tomographic image, extracting a peripheral region of the lung at an arbitrarily preset depth from the pleural surface; a feature amount acquisition unit for acquiring one or more feature amounts from the lung peripheral region; a lesion identification unit for identifying a lesion within the lung peripheral region on the basis of the one or more feature amounts acquired above; and an output unit for outputting the result of the lesion identification.
Inventors:
IWASAWA TAE (JP)
GOTOH TOSHIYUKI (JP)
IWAO YUMA (JP)
GOTOH TOSHIYUKI (JP)
IWAO YUMA (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2017/007668
Publication Date:
September 08, 2017
Filing Date:
February 28, 2017
Export Citation:
Assignee:
KANAGAWA PREFECTURAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION (JP)
NAT UNIV CORP YOKOHAMA NAT UNIV (JP)
NAT UNIV CORP YOKOHAMA NAT UNIV (JP)
International Classes:
A61B6/03
Foreign References:
| JP2015136480A | 2015-07-30 | |||
| JP2009195279A | 2009-09-03 | |||
| JP2011048481A | 2011-03-10 | |||
| JP2010035635A | 2010-02-18 |
Other References:
TAE IWASAWA: "Lung Volume: Pitfalls in Quantitative CT Evaluation", DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING THE JULY ISSUE, vol. 31, no. 8, 25 June 2011 (2011-06-25), pages 850 - 863
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
TANIGAWA AND PARTNERS, PATENT FIRM (JP)
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