18732824. IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD (Hitachi, Ltd.)
IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD
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IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18732824 titled 'IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD
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An image processing apparatus includes: an inner region setting unit and a peripheral region setting unit setting, for an inner region in a medical image, a peripheral region in the medical image; an intensity value group probability distribution calculation unit calculating an inner region histogram for the inner region and calculating a peripheral region histogram for the peripheral region; a probability difference calculation unit calculating a probability difference distribution by calculating a difference value between the inner region histogram and the peripheral region histogram for each predetermined intensity value; a component image processing unit generating a component image based on the medical image; a detection range setting unit setting a detection range to each of the component images; a mask setting unit selecting a pixel to be highlighted for each of the component images based on the detection range; and a display processing unit outputting the highlighted component image.