US 12,076,180 B2
Image processing apparatus, ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, and image processing method
Hiroaki Ishikawa, Saitama (JP); and Satoshi Matsunaga, Nasushiobara (JP)
Assigned to Canon Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara (JP)
Filed by Canon Medical Systems Corporation, Otawara (JP)
Filed on Jan. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/152,896.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-009215 (JP), filed on Jan. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0228178 A1, Jul. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01)
CPC A61B 8/0825 (2013.01) [A61B 8/463 (2013.01); A61B 8/466 (2013.01); A61B 8/469 (2013.01); G06T 7/0012 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10136 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30068 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30208 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image processing apparatus, comprising:
processing circuitry configured to:
calculate, based on a region of interest set in a mammographic image, a first distance from the region of interest to a body surface on the mammographic image; and
display, in an ultrasound image, a marker indicating a position of the region of interest as viewed in a depth direction based on the first distance,
wherein the marker includes a first straight-line marker and a second straight-line marker indicating a depth or a position of the region of interest on the ultrasound image, a region interposed between the first straight-line marker and the second straight-line marker indicates a depth at which a lesion corresponding to the region of interest is positioned, and the processing circuitry is further configured to display the first straight-line marker and the second straight-line marker on the ultrasound image so as to indicate the depth at which the lesion is positioned.