Patent ID: 11950760
Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 14:
15. An endoscope apparatus comprising one or more processors, configured to:
acquire, in a case where a lesion is detected from time-series images captured during an endoscopic examination period, acquired lesion information that indicates at least one of a first lesion image representing the detected lesion or a feature value indicating a feature of the first lesion image;
identify a lesion from the time-series images;
count a lesion count, which is the number of lesions detected in a single endoscopic examination;
display the lesion count counted;
output a division instruction for dividing the endoscopic examination into a first examination that is performed at the time of insertion of a scope and a second examination that is performed at the time of withdrawal of the scope;
in the first examination,
compare existing lesion information, which is the acquired lesion information previously, with the a newly acquired lesion information and determine whether the newly acquired lesion information indicates the same lesion indicated by the existing lesion information, and
increment the lesion count counted by one when the one or more processors determines that the newly acquired lesion information does not indicate the same lesion indicated by the existing lesion information, and
in the second examination that follows the first examination,
compare the existing lesion information previously acquired in the first examination with the acquired lesion information newly acquired in the second examination and determine whether the newly acquired lesion information indicates the same lesion indicated by the existing lesion information previously acquired in the first examination,
decrement a remaining lesion count by one to update the remaining lesion count, the remaining lesion count being the lesion count when the first examination is completed, in a case where the one or more processors determines that the newly acquired lesion information indicates the same lesion indicated by the existing lesion information previously acquired in the first examination, and
display the remaining lesion count on the basis of the remaining lesion count.