Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9566002-B2
Application number	US-201313746658-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 22, 2013
Priority date	Jan 25, 2012
Publication date	Feb 14, 2017
Grant date	Feb 14, 2017

Abstract

To ensure display of a region of interest on a fundus image and a tomographic image of an eye to be inspected in a correspondence manner, an apparatus for processing images of an eye to be inspected includes: a unit that acquires a fundus image of an eye to be inspected; a unit that designates an arbitrary point on the fundus image; a unit that acquires a tomographic image of the eye to be inspected; a unit that calculates a point on the tomographic image corresponding to the arbitrary point; and a unit that converts a coordinate system for displaying the tomographic image and the fundus image in association with each other on the basis of positions of the arbitrary point and the corresponding point.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image processing apparatus, comprising:
a fundus image acquiring unit configured to acquire a fundus image of an eye to be inspected;
a designating unit configured to designate at least two arbitrary points on the fundus image;
a tomographic image acquiring unit configured to acquire a tomographic image of the eye to be inspected;
a deviation amount calculating unit configured to calculate a deviation amount between a distance between a first arbitrary point and a second arbitrary point of the at least two arbitrary points on the fundus image, and a distance, measured along a retina on the tomographic image, between a first point and a second point on the tomographic image, wherein the first point and the second point correspond to the first arbitrary point and the second arbitrary point respectively; and
a converting unit configured to convert the tomographic image on the basis of the deviation amount so that the first and second arbitrary points on the fundus image match with corresponding points on the tomographic image.

2. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a display unit configured to display a tomographic image and a fundus image of a left eye and a tomographic image and a fundus image of a right eye at positions on a display corresponding to relative respective orientations of the left eye and the right eye.

3. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a display unit configured to display a mirror-reversed image of an eye.

4. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a display unit configured to display a mirror-reversed image of a left or right eye alongside an image of a right or left eye respectively.

5. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a display unit configured to display at least a NFL+GCL+IPL thickness chart of the left and right eyes and superimposing thereon a marker indicating a position of a respective tomographic image, wherein, when a marker of a first of the left or right eye is moved in the NFL+GCL+IPL thickness chart, the display unit is configured to move automatically a marker of the second of the left or right eye to a corresponding position in the second eye.

6. An image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a distance between the first point and the second point on the tomographic image is an expansion distance.

7. An image processing method comprising:
acquiring a fundus image of an eye to be inspected;
designating at least two arbitrary points on the fundus image;
acquiring a tomographic image of the eye to be inspected;
calculating a deviation amount between a distance between a first arbitrary point and a second arbitrary point of the at least two arbitrary points on the fundus image and a, measured along a retina on the tomographic image, distance between a first point and a second point on the tomographic image, wherein the first point and the second point correspond to the first arbitrary point and the second arbitrary point respectively; and
converting the tomographic image on the basis of the deviation amount so that the first and second arbitrary points on the fundus image match with the respective corresponding points on the tomographic image.

8. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program which, when run on a computer, causes the computer to execute the respective steps of the image processing method as set forth in claim 7 .

9. An image processing apparatus, comprising:
a fundus image acquiring unit configured to acquire a fundus image of an eye to be inspected;
a designating unit configured to designate at least one arbitrary point on the fundus image;
a tomographic image acquiring unit configured to acquire a tomographic image of the eye to be inspected;
a deviation amount calculating unit configured to calculate a deviation amount between the arbitrary point and a point measured along a retina on the tomographic image which corresponds to the arbitrary point when a curvature of the tomographic image comes close to flat; and
a converting unit configured to convert the tomographic image on the basis of the deviation amount so that the arbitrary point on the fundus image matches with the point on the tomographic image.

10. An image processing apparatus, comprising:
a fundus image acquiring unit configured to acquire a fundus image of an eye to be inspected;
a designating unit configured to designate at least one arbitrary point on the fundus image;
a tomographic image acquiring unit configured to acquire a tomographic image of the eye to be inspected;
a deviation amount calculating unit configured to calculate a deviation amount between the arbitrary point and a point measured along a retina on the tomographic image which corresponds to the arbitrary point when a curvature of the tomographic image comes close to flat; and
a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display the tomographic image and the fundus image on the basis of the deviation amount so that the arbitrary point on the fundus image matches with the point on the tomographic image.

11. An image processing apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the display control unit controls the display unit to display the tomographic image with the fundus image.

12. An image processing apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the display control unit controls the display unit to display the tomographic image and the fundus image so that the arbitrary point on the fundus image and the point on the tomographic image are arranged on one line.

13. An image processing apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the display control unit controls the display unit to display the tomographic image and the fundus image so that the arbitrary point on the fundus image and the point on the tomographic image are arranged on one line.

14. An image processing apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the display control unit controls the display unit to display the tomographic image two-dimensionally.

15. An image processing apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the display control unit controls the display unit to display the tomographic image two-dimensionally.

16. An image processing apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein the display control unit controls the display unit to display the tomographic image two-dimensionally.

17. An image processing apparatus according to claim 13 , wherein the display control unit controls the display unit to display the tomographic image two-dimensionally.

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Nakahara Yasuhiro
• Ono Shigeaki
• Sakagawa Yukio
• Uchida Hiroki

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