US 12,029,384 B2
Medical image processing apparatus, endoscope system, and method for operating medical image processing apparatus
Toshihiro Usuda, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/167,051.
Application 17/167,051 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2019/031133, filed on Aug. 7, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-153576 (JP), filed on Aug. 17, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0153720 A1, May 27, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 1/00006 (2013.01) [A61B 1/000094 (2022.02); A61B 1/00045 (2013.01); A61B 1/0655 (2022.02); A61B 1/0661 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical image processing apparatus comprising:
one or more hardware processors configured to:
acquire a medical image, the medical image being obtained through imaging of an observation target performed by an imaging device;
detect a region of interest in the observation target from the medical image;
measure a first cumulative detection time period during which the region of interest remains detected;
cause the region of interest detected from the medical image to be displayed in a manner of emphasized display and that changes the emphasized display in accordance with the first cumulative detection time period;
superimpose, for the emphasized display, a figure on a position of the region of interest in the medical image;
determine whether a newly detected region of interest is identical to any one of the previously detected regions of interest during imaging performed by the imaging device; and
take over the first cumulative detection time period and measure a second cumulative detection time period of the previous region of interest that has been determined to be identical to the newly detected region of interest so as to change the emphasized display in accordance with the second cumulative detection time period.