Patent ID: 8144993
Filing Date: 2012-03-27
Classification: A61B,G06T

Abstract:
1. A medical image processing method for image processing of a medical image depicting a living mucous, the method comprising: a boundary detecting step for detecting a boundary of the living mucous from the medical image; a mucous feature detecting step for detecting an outline configuring a boundary between an esophagus mucous and a gastric mucous with a different feature on the basis of the boundary detected at the boundary detecting step; a refraction point calculating step for calculating a refracted refraction point on the outline; an outline shape extracting step for extracting information on a shape of the boundary between the esophagus mucous and the gastric mucous, based on information of the refraction point on the outline calculated at the refraction point calculating step; and a determining step for determining whether or not the shape of the boundary is complicated, based on the information on the shape of the boundary between the esophagus mucous and the gastric mucous, which is detected at the outline shape extracting step, in order to determine whether or not a squamous epithelium of an esophagus is replaced by the gastric mucous.