Medical image processing apparatus
First Claim
1. A medical image processing apparatus comprisingimage capturing means for capturing a plurality of medical images obtained by imaging an object to be examined;
- aligning means for aligning the medical images captured by said image capturing means;
fusion image forming means for forming a fusion image by superimposing the medical images aligned by said aligning means on each other;
display means for displaying the medical images thereon; and
display control means for controlling the display of the respective medical images captured by said image capturing means and the fusion image of the respective medical images formed by said fusion image forming means on said display means.
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Abstract
A display screen of an image display section is divided into an image display area for displaying an image and an operation panel display area, an image (base image) imaged by an X-ray CT apparatus, for example, is displayed on the upper part (base area) of the image display area, an image (match image) imaged by a MRI apparatus is displayed in the middle part (match area), and an operation panel, which is composed of an operation panel display area 2 of the image display section and respective operation keys for aligning the images, is displayed thereon. When the operation panel is operated and fit points are provided to the images or a region of interest (ROI) is set on the base image, a CPU aligns and composes the respective images based on the fit points or ROI, and displays the fusion image on the lower part (fusion area) of the image display area. As a result, both the images can be compared with each other visually.
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12 Claims
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1. A medical image processing apparatus comprising
image capturing means for capturing a plurality of medical images obtained by imaging an object to be examined; -
aligning means for aligning the medical images captured by said image capturing means; fusion image forming means for forming a fusion image by superimposing the medical images aligned by said aligning means on each other; display means for displaying the medical images thereon; and display control means for controlling the display of the respective medical images captured by said image capturing means and the fusion image of the respective medical images formed by said fusion image forming means on said display means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A medical image processing apparatus comprising:
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image capturing means for capturing a plurality of medical images obtained by imaging an object to be examined; aligning means for aligning the medical images captured by said image capturing means; fusion image forming means for forming a fusion image by superimposing the medical images aligned by said aligning means on each other; display means for displaying the medical images thereon; and display control means for controlling the display of the fusion image of the respective medical images formed by said fusion image forming means on said display means, wherein when display of the fusion image on said display means is controlled, said display control means controls simultaneous display of a plurality of images viewed from plural directions.
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