Image processing apparatus and image processing method

• US 8,948,473 B2
• Filed: 08/03/2009
• Issued: 02/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Ishikawa, Ryo, Sakagawa, Yukio, Shinbata, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Bitar, Nancy
• Application Number:
  US12/534,412
• Publication Number:
  US 20100074488A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,010 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 382/128
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing

Abstract

A plurality of sets each including part information representing a human body part and a schema image serving as the schematic view of the human body part are held. A captured image representing the interior of the body of a patient is acquired. Hierarchical structure information is acquired, which contains part information globally representing a part corresponding to a designated portion on the captured image and part information locally representing the part corresponding to the designated portion. A set including the part information contained in the hierarchical structure information is acquired. A schema image included in the acquired set is output.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:

a holding unit which holds a plurality of sets each including part information representing a human body part and a schema image serving as a schematic view of the human body part;

a unit which acquires a single image representing a body of a patient;

an acquisition unit which, when a user designates plural points having different positional coordinates on the single image, automatically acquires, from said holding unit, a schema image which is included in the set including part information common to the plural points designated on the single image by the user; and

a unit which displays the schema image acquired by said acquisition unit,

wherein said holding unit holds information in which information indicating a human body part is associated with one or more coordinates on a reference image, and

said acquisition unit acquires, when the user designates the plural points on the single image, using the information held in the holding unit, information indicating a human body part being associated with coordinates on the reference image being identical to the designated points on the single image, and acquires a schema image of the human body part indicated by the acquired information.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a unit which acquires a document; and

an output unit which records, on the acquired document, the schema image acquired by said acquisition unit, and outputs the document.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a unit which displays the single image.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a unit which detects and acquires a disorder portion from the single image,

wherein at least one of the designated points on the single image is on the acquired disorder portion.

5. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said acquisition unit acquires schema images included in the sets each of which includes part information globally representing a part corresponding to the plurality of designated points on the single image or part information locally representing the part corresponding to the plurality of designated points on the image.

8. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said holding unit holds plural schema images in association with hierarchical structure information containing part information locally representing the human body part, and said acquisition unit acquires a schema image corresponding to a human body part common to part information included in hierarchical structure information corresponding to the designated points.

9. The apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising a display control unit which displays on a display unit a schema image corresponding to a human body part common to part information included in hierarchical structure information corresponding to the designated points.

10. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said acquisition unit acquires, when said acquisition unit cannot acquire the schema image which is included in the set including part information common to the plural points designated on the single image by the user, a schema image which is included in the set including part information for each of the plural points designated on the single image by the user.

11. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said acquisition unit acquires, when said acquisition unit acquires plural schema images each of which is included in the set including part information common to the plural points designated on the single image by the user, the schema image which is included in the set which includes part information representing a most local part.

6. An image processing method of an image processing apparatus that holds a plurality of sets each including part information representing a human body part and a schema image serving as a schematic view of the human body part, comprising the steps of:

acquiring a single captured image representing a body of a patient;

acquiring hierarchical structure information containing part information globally representing a part corresponding to a designated portion on the single captured image and part information locally representing the part corresponding to the designated portion;

when a user designates plural points having different positional coordinates on the single image, automatically acquiring from the apparatus, a schema image which is included in the set including the part information common to the plural points designated on the single image by the user; and

outputting the schema image acquired in said step of acquiring the schema image,

wherein information is held in which information indicating a human body part is associated with one or more coordinates on a reference image, and

when the user designates the plural points on the single image, using the held information, information is acquired indicating a human body part being associated with coordinates on the reference image being identical to the designated points on the single image, and a schema image is acquired of the human body part indicated by the acquired information.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program for causing a computer to function as:

a holding unit which holds a plurality of sets each including part information representing a human body part and a schema image serving as a schematic view of the human body part;

a unit which acquires an image representing an interior portion of a body of a patient;

an acquisition unit which, when a user designates plural points having different positional coordinates on the image, automatically acquires, from said holding unit, a schema image which is included in the set including part information common to the plural points designated on the image by the user; and

a unit which displays the schema image acquired by said acquisition unit,

wherein said holding unit holds information in which information indicating a human body part is associated with one or more coordinates on a reference image, and

said acquisition unit acquires, when the user designates the plural points on the image, using the information held in the holding unit, information indicating a human body part being associated with coordinates on the reference image being identical to the designated points on the image, and acquires a schema image of the human body part indicated by the acquired information.