Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image analysis apparatus, method, and program
- Patent Title (中): 图像分析装置,方法和程序
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Application No.: US14489529Application Date: 2014-09-18
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Publication No.: US09117287B2Publication Date: 2015-08-25
- Inventor: Jun Masumoto
- Applicant: FUJIFILM Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
- Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: McGinn IP Law Group, PLLC
- Priority: JP2012-066598 20120323
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06T7/20 ; A61B6/03 ; A61B6/00 ; A61B5/055 ; A61B5/113 ; G06T7/00 ; A61B5/091

Abstract:
An image analysis apparatus that analyzes, based on a series of three-dimensional images of lungs at different time phases, a three-dimensional distribution of ventilation volume of the lungs, includes a lung region extraction unit that extracts a lung region from each of the three-dimensional images; an alignment unit that aligns the lung regions between the series of three-dimensional images and calculates a displacement vector field in the lung region; a function calculation unit that calculates a local ventilation volume function representing a temporal change in ventilation volume at each point in the displacement vector field in each of the three-dimensional images based on the displacement vector field; and a quantification unit that quantifies a difference between the local ventilation volume function and a benchmark ventilation volume function serving as a reference and calculates a quantitative value representing the difference.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150005659A1 Image Analysis Apparatus, Method, and Program Public/Granted day:2015-01-01
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