Image processing apparatus and computer program product
First Claim
1. An image processing apparatus, comprising:
- a processing circuit configured toacquire three-dimensional histology information about tissue inside a subject and three-dimensional fluid information about fluid moving inside the subject, both of which are created based on a reflection wave of an ultrasonic wave transmitted to an inside of the subject,create three-dimensional particle information by removing an area in which the fluid is present in the three-dimensional fluid information at designated spatial intervals in order to replace a portion of flow data within the three-dimensional fluid information with a plurality of scattered, sparsely-distributed particles in three dimensions, each particle being represented by a graphical symbol having a predetermined shape,create a composite image based on the created three-dimensional particle information and the three-dimensional histology information, andcontrol display of the composite image so that the composite image is displayed on a predetermined display.
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Abstract
A tissue-image creating unit creates a tissue image including depth values by volume rendering from three-dimensional tissue data stored in a three-dimensional data storage unit. A blood-flow data converting unit scatters a blood flow in three-dimensional blood-flow data stored in the three-dimensional data storage unit into particles, and converts the three-dimensional blood-flow data into three-dimensional particle data. A blood-flow image creating unit creates a blood-flow image including depth values from the three-dimensional particle data. A composite-image creating unit then creates a composite image by coordinating the order of rendering particles and tissue based on the depth values of respective pixels included in the tissue image and the depth values of respective particles included in the blood-flow image. A display control unit then controls display of the composite image so as to be displayed in order onto a monitor included in an output unit.
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11 Claims
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1. An image processing apparatus, comprising:
a processing circuit configured to acquire three-dimensional histology information about tissue inside a subject and three-dimensional fluid information about fluid moving inside the subject, both of which are created based on a reflection wave of an ultrasonic wave transmitted to an inside of the subject, create three-dimensional particle information by removing an area in which the fluid is present in the three-dimensional fluid information at designated spatial intervals in order to replace a portion of flow data within the three-dimensional fluid information with a plurality of scattered, sparsely-distributed particles in three dimensions, each particle being represented by a graphical symbol having a predetermined shape, create a composite image based on the created three-dimensional particle information and the three-dimensional histology information, and control display of the composite image so that the composite image is displayed on a predetermined display. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing programmed instructions for processing an image, wherein the instructions, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform a method comprising:
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acquiring three-dimensional histology information about tissue inside a subject and three-dimensional fluid information about fluid moving inside the subject; creating three-dimensional particle information by removing an area in which the fluid is present in the three-dimensional fluid information at designated spatial intervals in order to replace a portion of flow data within the three-dimensional fluid information with a plurality of scattered, sparsely distributed particles in three dimensions, each particle being represented by a graphical symbol having a predetermined shape; creating a composite image based on the created three-dimensional particle information and the three-dimensional histology information; and controlling display of the composite image so that the composite image is displayed on a predetermined display.
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