US 12,236,598 B2
Imaging support apparatus, radiation imaging system, and storage medium
Tatsuya Takagi, Mitaka (JP)
Assigned to KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Konica Minolta, Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jan. 7, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/143,512.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-003511 (JP), filed on Jan. 14, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0217169 A1, Jul. 15, 2021
Int. Cl. G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G01T 1/08 (2006.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01); H04N 5/32 (2023.01)
CPC G06T 7/0014 (2013.01) [G01T 1/08 (2013.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01); H04N 5/32 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10116 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20212 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An imaging support apparatus that supports imaging by a radiation imaging apparatus which obtains a plurality of frame images by successively performing a plurality of radiation imaging operations to a subject, the imaging support apparatus comprising:
a hardware processor that determines a reference signal value of one or more initial frame images during the imaging by the radiation imaging apparatus, calculates a normalized reference signal value on the basis of a sensitivity index, and determines a number of the plurality of frame images to be obtained by the radiation imaging apparatus based on the normalized reference signal value of the one or more initial frame images, each of the initial frame images being an initial frame image obtained early in the radiation imaging operations by the radiation imaging apparatus,
wherein the reference signal value is determined based on an average value, a median value, a highest value, or a lowest value of pixel signal values in a region of interest of the one or more initial frame images, and
wherein the hardware processor determines the number of the frame images to be obtained while the plurality of frame images are being obtained by the radiation imaging apparatus.