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

Claim 28:
29. A method for processing information, the method comprising:
obtaining, using a computer, a chest X-ray image;
detecting, in the obtained chest X-ray image using the computer and a model constructed through machine learning before the detecting, boundary lines of images of anatomical structures whose ranges of X-ray transmittances are different from one another;
setting, using the computer, a third lung area in the chest X-ray image including at least one of a first lung area where one or more lungs and a heart overlap or a second lung area where one of the lungs and a liver overlap on a basis of the detected boundary lines;
extracting, using the computer, a vascular index indicating at least one of thickness or density of at least one pulmonary blood vessel present in an area included in the third lung area; and
outputting, using the computer, the extracted vascular index.