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MEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF

  • US 20140219524A1
  • Filed: 05/11/2012
  • Published: 08/07/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A medical image processing apparatus comprising:

  • an acquiring unit configured to acquire volume data of a heart;

    a coordinate system detecting unit configured to detect a three-dimensional left ventricle coordinate system composed of three axes including at least a left ventricle long axis of the heart from the volume data;

    a boundary detecting unit configured to use a boundary model expressed in the left ventricle coordinate system to detect a left ventricle boundary from the volume data by deforming the boundary model so that an error between a boundary pattern obtained by applying the boundary model to the volume data and a predetermined boundary pattern model becomes small; and

    a display unit configured to display the detected left ventricle boundary on a cross-sectional image together with the cross-sectional image orthogonal to at least one axis of the three axes of the left ventricle coordinate system.

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