| CPC G06T 7/0012 (2013.01) [G06T 11/00 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30101 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30172 (2013.01)] | 10 Claims |

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1. A medical image processing apparatus, comprising:
processing circuitry configured to:
generate two or more projection images by implementing a local intensity projection on each of two or more sets of two-dimensional images obtained from a plurality of two-dimensional images structuring three-dimensional volume data rendering a tubular organ;
obtain a mapping matrix of the local intensity projection with respect to each of the sets;
annotate the tubular organ in each of the projection images; and
identify the tubular organ in the three-dimensional volume data, by inversely mapping the tubular organ annotated in the projection images onto the three-dimensional volume data while using the mapping matrix corresponding to each of the sets.
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