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

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9582152-B2
Application number	US-201514597793-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 15, 2015
Priority date	Jan 15, 2014
Publication date	Feb 28, 2017
Grant date	Feb 28, 2017

Abstract

Provided is a medical image providing apparatus including: a display configured to display a first image including an object; a user interface (UI) configured to output a first list comprising at least one protocol applied while scanning the object in response to in response to a first region included in the first image being selected, and to receive a selection of a first protocol included in the first list; and a controller configured to control to overlay and display a second image reconstructed by using image data obtained by applying the first protocol, on the first region of the first image.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computed tomography (CT) image providing apparatus comprising:
a display; and
a controller configured to:
control the display to display a first type CT image of an object including a region of interest (ROI), and a first list comprising a plurality of second type CT images corresponding to the ROI of the first type CT image and information of the plurality of second type CT images,
wherein the first type CT image and the plurality of second type CT images are different from each other with respect to CT processing technique, and the information of the plurality of second type CT images relates to the technique,
the plurality of second type CT images are generated by using projection data obtained during scanning for the first type CT image,
the ROI of the first type CT image corresponds to a partial region of the first type CT image, and
each of the plurality of second type CT images is a partial image corresponding to the ROI of the first type CT image.

2. The CT image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of second type CT images indicates a region of the object included in the ROI.

3. The CT image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of second type CT images comprises at least one CT image reconstructed from image data obtained by a computed tomography (CT) protocol applied during a CT scan.

4. The CT image providing apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising an input device configured to receive a user input for the selection of the ROI of the first type CT image from a user,
wherein the controller is further configured to, when the ROI is selected in the first type CT image, control the display to display the first list comprising the plurality of second type CT images.

5. The CT image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to automatically extract a target region for diagnosis from the first type CT image and select the target region as the ROI.

6. The CT image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to automatically perform an organ segmentation on the first type CT image to obtain a segmented region and select the segmented region as the ROI.

7. The CT image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to automatically extract a disease suspected region from the first type CT image and select the disease suspected region as the ROI.

8. The CT image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first list comprises a first sub-list comprising the at least one protocol, and a second sub-list comprising at least one manipulation menu item for manipulating the ROI of the first type CT image.

9. The CT image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of second type CT images comprises at least one additional item obtained or calculated by using image data obtained during scanning for the first type CT image.

10. The CT image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to control the display to display a sub-list comprising at least one reconstructed image according to at least one point in time, which corresponds to a protocol of at least one of the plurality of second type CT images included in the first list.

11. The CT image providing apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising an input device configured to receive a predetermined command from a user,
wherein the controller is configured to control the display to display a preview menu on a reconstructed image corresponding to a predetermined item included in the first list in response to the predetermined item being focused on by the input device.

12. The CT image providing apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising an input device configured to receive a user input for a selection on one of the plurality of second type CT images corresponding to each of a plurality of ROIs that are a plurality of partial regions included in the first type CT image being selected.

13. The CT image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first list comprises at least one of a plurality of anatomical image items corresponding to a protocol, and a plurality of functional image items corresponding to a protocol.

14. The CT image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to control a type of an image displayed in the ROI and a type of the ROI to be mutually switched and displayed, according to a user request.

15. The CT image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the controller is configured to change a type of an image displayed on the ROI of which a location is changed in response to a second image being displayed on the ROI of the first type CT image and a location of the ROI being requested to be changed.

16. The CT image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the plurality of the second type CT images is another type CT image than the first type CT image which is generated from image data obtained by applying the same protocol as the first type CT image.

17. The CT image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of the second type CT images comprises at least one of a contrast medium image and a non-contrast medium image.

18. The CT image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to control the display, when one of the plurality of the second type CT images is selected, to display the selected second type CT image as an overlay on the ROI of the first type CT image.

19. The CT image providing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of the second type CT images corresponds to the ROI in a same slice as the first type CT image.

20. The CT image proving apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to, when the location of the ROI is changed in the first type CT image, change the plurality of second type CT images corresponding to the changed location of the ROI.

21. The CT image proving apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the CT processing technique comprises CT image processing technique.

22. The CT image proving apparatus of claim 21 , wherein the CT image processing technique comprises raw data reconstruction technique.

23. A computed tomography (CT) image providing method comprising:
displaying a first type CT image of an object including a region of interest (ROI), and a first list comprising a plurality of second type CT images corresponding to the ROI of the first type CT image and information of the plurality of second type CT images;
wherein the first type CT image and the plurality of second type CT images are different from each other with respect to CT processing technique, and the information of the plurality of second type CT images relates to the technique,
the plurality of second type CT images are generated by using projection data obtained during scanning for the first type CT image,
the ROI of the first type CT image corresponds to a partial region of the first type CT image, and
each of the plurality of the second type CT images is a partial image corresponding to the ROI of the first type CT image.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Gulaka Praveen
• Srinivasan Girish
• Lee Yeon-Ju

Classifications

• G06T12/00

  Tomographic reconstruction from projections · CPC title

• G06F3/0482 Primary

  Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus · CPC title

• A61B6/032

  Transmission computed tomography [CT] · CPC title

• A61B6/5229

  combining image data of a patient, e.g. combining a functional image with an anatomical image · CPC title

• A61B5/055

  involving electronic [EMR] or nuclear [NMR] magnetic resonance, e.g. magnetic resonance imaging · CPC title