Patent ID: 11935234
Assignee: PANASONIC HOLDINGS CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC G

Claim 19:
20. The method according to claim 19, further comprising:
dividing, using the computer, the third lung area set in the setting into local areas 1 to n, each of which includes the area included in the third lung area, n being a natural number greater than or equal to 2,
wherein, in the extracting, a vascular index i indicating at least one of thickness or density of at least one pulmonary blood vessel present in a local area i is extracted as the vascular index, i being a natural number greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to n,
wherein, in the determining, whether the local area i is in an abnormal state is determined on a basis of the vascular index i and a reference index i based on indices extracted, using a method used to extract the vascular index i, in advance from an area in chest X-ray images in a normal state corresponding to the local area i, and
wherein, in the outputting, an image of a local area j determined to be in an abnormal state and details of the abnormal state of the local area j are displayed on the display, j being a natural number greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to n.