US 12,131,479 B2
Medical image processing apparatus, system, and method
Gakuto Aoyama, Nasushiobara (JP)
Assigned to CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara (JP)
Filed by CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION, Otawara (JP)
Filed on Aug. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/392,657.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-134898 (JP), filed on Aug. 7, 2020; and application No. 2021-122384 (JP), filed on Jul. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0044408 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. G06T 7/11 (2017.01)
CPC G06T 7/11 (2017.01) [G06T 2207/10081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30101 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30172 (2013.01)] 29 Claims
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1. A medical image processing apparatus, comprising:
processing circuitry configured to
acquire a distribution of wall shear stress of a blood vessel,
select a representative value from all values of the wall shear stress at 360 degrees in a horizontally cross-sectional direction in which a center line of the blood vessel is an axis, the representative value being selected at each position of the center line of the blood vessel, based on an extraction criterion determined for each region in accordance with a shape or a property of the blood vessel, and
change a display mode of the wall shear stress in the blood vessel, based on a result of selecting the representative values of the wall shear stress or a characteristic blood vessel region.