IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

• Main Authors: MORI KENSAKU, KUDO SHINEI, NIMURA YUKITAKA, MISAWA MASASHI, WAKIZAKA TAKASHI, KAHARA KAWAO, MORI YUICHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 19.12.2019
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DIAGNOSIS; HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONTECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING ORPROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IDENTIFICATION; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTEDFOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; PHYSICS; SURGERY

To enable even a person without professional knowledge and experience to diagnose a lesion by using a computer diagnosis support system to objectively diagnose the lesion.SOLUTION: An image processing apparatus according to this invention comprises: an analysis part 111 which performs texture analysis with respect to the concentration difference of the whole of a captured image of a blood vessel; and a classification part 112 which performs classification corresponding to pathological diagnosis by using a result of the texture analysis.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】本発明は、病変の診断をコンピュータ診断支援システムを用いて客観的に行うことで、専門的な知識と経験を有する者でなくとも、病変の診断を可能にすることを目的とする。【解決手段】本発明に係る画像処理装置は、血管が撮像されている撮像画像の全体の濃淡についてテクスチャ解析を行う解析部１１１と、テクスチャ解析の結果を用いて、病理診断に対応した分類を行う分類部１１２と、を備える。【選択図】図１