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

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022027024-A1
Application number	US-202117497376-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Oct 8, 2021
Priority date	Jan 15, 2014
Publication date	Jan 27, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

A medical image providing apparatus includes: a display configured to display a first image including an object; and a processor. The processor is configured to: while the first image is displayed, control to output, on the display, a list including second medical images, wherein each of the second medical images is reconstructed by one of a plurality of medical images reconstruction techniques using image data of a first region in the first image; control to output, on the display, a manipulation menu item for manipulating at least one of the second medical images included in the list; based on a selection of the manipulation menu item corresponding to one of the second medical images, receive a manipulation input corresponding to the selected manipulation menu item; and update the second medical image corresponding to the selected manipulation menu item by applying the manipulation input.

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:
while the first image is displayed, control to output, on the display, a list comprising second medical images, wherein each of the second medical images is reconstructed by one of a plurality of medical images reconstruction techniques using image data of a first region in the first image;
control to output, on the display, a manipulation menu item for manipulating at least one of the second medical images included in the list;
based on a selection of the manipulation menu item corresponding to one of the second medical images, receive a manipulation input corresponding to the selected manipulation menu item; and
update the second medical image corresponding to the selected manipulation menu item by applying the manipulation input.

2 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the manipulation menu item comprises a menu option for adjusting a window level (WL) of the second medical image.

3 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the processor is further configured to, based on receiving a manipulation input for the menu option for adjusting the WL, update the second medical image corresponding to the selected manipulation menu item by adjusting the WL of the second medical image.

4 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the manipulation menu item comprises a menu option for filtering the second medical image by a filter.

5 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to, based on receiving a manipulation input for the menu option for filtering the second medical image by the filter, update the second medical image corresponding to the selected manipulation menu item by filtering the second medical image by the filter.

6 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the manipulation menu item comprises a menu option for adjusting a contrast of the second medical image.

7 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:
receive a selection of one of the second medical images, and control to display the selected second medical image to overlay on the first region in the first image.

8 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to automatically select the first region based on a user input relating to information on a diagnosis target region.

9 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the information on the diagnosis target region comprises information of an object for diagnosing a disease of a patient.

10 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the diagnosis target region comprises a brain region, and
the processor is further configured to automatically select the first region based on the user input selecting the brain region as the diagnosis target region.

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

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

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

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

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

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

17 . The medical image providing apparatus of claim 16 , 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.

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

19 . A medical image providing method comprising:
displaying a first image comprising an object; while the first image is displayed, displaying a list comprising second medical images, wherein each of the second medical images is reconstructed by one of a plurality of medical image reconstruction techniques using image data of a first region in the first image; displaying a manipulation menu item for manipulating at least one of the second medical images included in the list; and based on a selection of the manipulation menu item corresponding to one of the second medical images, receiving a manipulation input corresponding to the selected manipulation menu item; and updating the second medical image corresponding to the selected manipulation menu item by applying the manipulation input.

20 . A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, the non-transitory computer-readable recording medium comprising instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to execute a method including:
displaying a first image comprising an object; while the first image is displayed, displaying a list comprising second medical images, wherein each of the second medical images is reconstructed by one of a plurality of medical image reconstruction techniques using image data of a first region in the first image; displaying a manipulation menu item for manipulating at least one of the second medical images included in the list; and based on a selection of the manipulation menu item corresponding to one of the second medical images, receiving a manipulation input corresponding to the selected manipulation menu item; and updating the second medical image corresponding to the selected manipulation menu item by applying the manipulation input.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Gulaka Praveen
• Srinivasan Girish
• Lee Yeon-Ju

Classifications

• G06T12/00

  Tomographic reconstruction from projections · CPC title

• G06F3/04845 Primary

  for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour · CPC title

• A61B6/032

  Transmission computed tomography [CT] · CPC title

• A61B6/469

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

• A61B6/463

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