Medical image providing apparatus and medical image processing method of the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019278436-A1
Application number	US-201916423576-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 28, 2019
Priority date	Jan 15, 2014
Publication date	Sep 12, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

A medical image providing apparatus includes: a display configured to display a first image including an object; and a processor configured to control to output a first list for selecting a medical image reconstruction technique to generate a second image based on a first region included in the first image being selected, receive a selection of the medical image reconstruction technique, and to control to overlay and display the second image generated by applying the selected medical image reconstruction technique on the first region of the first image.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A medical image providing apparatus comprising:
a display configured to display a first image comprising an object; and a processor configured to control to output a first list comprising at least one medical image reconstruction technique used to generate a second image in response to a first region included in the first image being selected, receive a selection of a medical image reconstruction technique, and to control to overlay and display the second image generated by applying the selected medical image reconstruction technique on the first region of the first image.

2 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one medical image reconstruction technique comprises at least one of post-processing or reconstruction.

3 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the second image is generated by using data of the first image.

4 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the second image indicates a region of the object included in the first region.

5 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 1 , the first region is a partial region of the first image.

6 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first image is reconstructed from image data obtained by a computed tomography (CT) protocol.

7 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising an input device configured to receive a user input for selecting the first region on the first image.

8 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to automatically extract a target region for diagnosis from the first image and select the target region as the first region.

9 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first list further comprises at least one additional item obtained or calculated by using image data obtained by scanning for the first image.

10 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the at least one additional item comprises at least one of a cerebral blood volume (CBV) map, a cerebral blood flow (CBF) map, a histogram equalization image, an apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) map, a trace map, a functional MRI (fMRI) map, a fractional anisotropy map, or a diffusion tractography image.

11 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one medical image reconstruction technique comprises at least one of a contrast medium image reconstruction technique or a non-contrast medium image reconstruction technique.

12 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising an input device configured to receive a selection input, from a user, for a selection of a plurality of medical image reconstruction techniques corresponding to a plurality of first regions being selected in the first image,
wherein the processor is configured to control to display a plurality of second images on the plurality of first regions respectively, wherein each of the plurality of second images is generated by application each of the plurality of medical image reconstruction techniques.

13 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to automatically extract a disease suspected region from the first image and select the disease suspected region as the first region.

14 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to add and output a sub-list comprising at least one reconstructed image according to at least one point in time, which corresponds to each item included in the first list.

15 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to control a type of an image displayed in the first region and a type of the first image to be mutually switched and displayed, according to a user request.

16 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to change a type of an image overlaid on the first region of which a location is changed in response to the second image being overlaid on the first region of the first image and a location of the first region being requested to be changed.

17 . A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, the non-transitory computer-readable recording medium comprising instructions for:
displaying a first image comprising an object; outputting a first list comprising at least one medical image reconstruction technique used to generate a second medical image in response to a first region included in the first image being selected, receiving a selection of a medical image reconstruction technique, overlaying and displaying a second image generated by applying the selected medical image reconstruction technique on the first region of the first image.

18 . The computer program product of claim 17 , wherein the at least one medical image reconstruction technique comprises at least one of post-processing or reconstruction.

19 . The computer program product of claim 17 , wherein the second image is generated by using data of the first image.

20 . The computer program product of claim 17 , wherein the second image indicates a region of the object included in the first region.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Gulaka Praveen
• Srinivasan Girish
• Lee Yeon-Ju

Classifications

• G06T12/00

  Tomographic reconstruction from projections · CPC title

• A61B6/469

  for selecting a region of interest [ROI] · CPC title

• A61B2576/026

  for the brain · CPC title

• A61B6/463

  characterised by displaying multiple images or images and diagnostic data on one display · CPC title

• G16H40/63

  for local operation · CPC title