Title:
MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2014/162911
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
The present invention provides information that is an effective aid in diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease from thoracic volume images. The storage unit (112) of the medical image processing apparatus stores the data for multiple images of differing respiratory phases that represent the configuration of a subject's thoracic region. A vector-calculating unit (121) calculates the amount of movement of an area among the multiple images for each pixel or region. By combining at least two from among the amount of movement, a feature value determined from image pixel values and the rate of change in the size of a region, a level-determining unit (123) determines a level, which relates to the severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, for each pixel or region.
Inventors:
YAMAGATA HITOSHI (JP)
OHNO YOSHIHARU (JP)
OHNO YOSHIHARU (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2014/058116
Publication Date:
October 09, 2014
Filing Date:
March 24, 2014
Export Citation:
Assignee:
TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYS CORP (JP)
NAT UNIV CORP UNIV KOBE (JP)
NAT UNIV CORP UNIV KOBE (JP)
International Classes:
A61B6/03; A61B5/055
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Other References:
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YUKI WATABE ET AL.: "Quantitative analysis of pulmonary functions by use of registration method from inspiration and expiration thoracic CT images", IEICE TECHNICAL REPORT. MI, IYO GAZO, vol. 109, no. 407, 21 January 2010 (2010-01-21), pages 437 - 442, XP008181146
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C.J. GALBAN: "Computed tomography-based on biomarker provides unique signature for diagnosis of COPD phenotypes and disease progression", NATURE MED., vol. 18, no. 11, 2013, pages 1711 - 1716
See also references of EP 2982304A4
YUKI WATABE ET AL.: "Quantitative analysis of pulmonary functions by use of registration method from inspiration and expiration thoracic CT images", IEICE TECHNICAL REPORT. MI, IYO GAZO, vol. 109, no. 407, 21 January 2010 (2010-01-21), pages 437 - 442, XP008181146
MASAYOSHI MIYAZAKI ET AL.: "Analysis of Respiratory Movement Using 4-Dimensional CT image", IEICE TECHNICAL REPORT. MBE, ME TO BIOCYBERNETICS, vol. 111, no. 121, 1 July 2011 (2011-07-01), pages 13 - 16, XP008181115
C.J. GALBAN: "Computed tomography-based on biomarker provides unique signature for diagnosis of COPD phenotypes and disease progression", NATURE MED., vol. 18, no. 11, 2013, pages 1711 - 1716
See also references of EP 2982304A4
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
KURATA, Masatoshi et al. (JP)
Masatoshi Kurata (JP)
Masatoshi Kurata (JP)
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