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Image processing apparatus, magnetic resonance imaging apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium

  • US 10,401,457 B2
  • Filed: 02/26/2015
  • Issued: 09/03/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

  • a score acquisition management information storage unit in which pieces of score acquisition management information are stored, wherein;

    type information and score acquisition information are associated with each other in the score acquisition management information,the type information indicates parameter types, andthe score acquisition information includes parameter conditions having thresholds for parameter values;

    a receiving unit configured to receive diffusion weighted images, wherein the diffusion weighted images are constituted by units of processing;

    a parameter acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the diffusion weighted images, parameter maps of the diffusion weighted images for the parameter types, respectively,wherein each of the parameter maps of the diffusion weighted images includes a parameter value of a corresponding parameter type per each of the units of processing;

    a score acquisition information acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the score acquisition management information storage unit, score acquisition information that corresponds to the parameter maps of the diffusion weighted images, respectively;

    a score acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the acquired score acquisition information, for each of the units of processing, scores that correspond to the parameter maps, respectively, by using parameter values that the parameter maps have and the parameter conditions, wherein the score acquisition unit acquires the scores according to whether or not parameter values of the unit of processing satisfy the parameter conditions, respectively, for the parameter maps;

    a diagnostic image composition unit configured to total, for each of the units of processing, the acquired scores of the parameter maps, to calculate a diagnostic score of each of the units of processing, and to compose a diagnostic image that is an image having, for each of the units of processing, a pixel value that corresponds to the diagnostic score of each of the units of processing; and

    an output unit configured to output the diagnostic image.

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