EYE PORTION DIAGNOSIS SUPPORT APPARATUS, METHOD THEREFOR, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20110267584A1
• Filed: 07/07/2011
• Published: 11/03/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Imamura, Hiroshi, Katayama, Akihiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,322,854 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 351/206
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/102 for optical coherence tomography [OCT]
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/12 for looking at the eye fundus, e.g. ophthalmoscopes A61B3/13 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/1225 using coherent radiation
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 3/14 Arrangements specially adapted for eye photography apparatus or arrangements for taking photographs per se G03B
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems

Abstract

There is provided a technique for efficiently acquiring a tomogram of an eye portion. A diagnosis support apparatus includes a wide-area image acquisition means for acquiring a wide-area image of an eye portion, a detection means for detecting a lesion candidate on the eye portion by analyzing the wide-area image acquired by the wide-area image acquisition means, a determination means for determining a parameter associated with acquisition of a tomogram of the eye portion, based on a lesion candidate detection result obtained by the detection means, and a tomogram acquisition means for acquiring a tomogram of the eye portion based on the parameter determined by the determination means.

Claims

1. A diagnosis support apparatus comprising:

an acquisition unit configured to acquire a fundus image;

a unit configured to obtain information of a lesion candidate in the fundus image acquired by the acquisition unit;

a unit configured to acquire a parameter associated with acquisition of a tomogram of the fundus on the basis of the obtained information of the lesion candidate; and

a tomogram acquisition unit configured to acquire the tomogram of the fundus on the basis of the parameter.