Title:
DIAGNOSIS ASSISTANCE APPARATUS
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2012/105141
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
The diagnosis assistance apparatus is provided with: an image input unit for inputting endoscopic images acquired from living tissue; a structure detection means for detecting elliptical structures from image signals that correspond to the endoscopic images input into the image input unit; and a network detection unit that detects a prescribed network topology in the endoscopic image on the basis of the number of elliptical structures detected by the structure detection unit, the area of elliptical structures, the distance between elliptical structures, or the number of connections between elliptical structures.
Inventors:
TANAKA KENICHI (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2011/079798
Publication Date:
August 09, 2012
Filing Date:
December 22, 2011
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Assignee:
OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP (JP)
TANAKA KENICHI (JP)
TANAKA KENICHI (JP)
International Classes:
A61B1/00; A61B1/04
Domestic Patent References:
| WO2007119297A1 | 2007-10-25 |
Foreign References:
| JP2006141734A | 2006-06-08 | |||
| JP2010179042A | 2010-08-19 | |||
| JP2010068865A | 2010-04-02 | |||
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Other References:
See also references of EP 2567651A4
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
ITOH SUSUMU (JP)
Susumu Ito (JP)
Susumu Ito (JP)
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