Patent ID: 9211057
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: A61B,G06T

Abstract:
1. An endoscope system, comprising: a light source apparatus that emits an excitation light and a reference light to a biological tissue; an endoscope including an image pickup device that picks up images of reflection lights, which are fluorescence emitted from the biological tissue in response to the excitation light, and the reference light that are reflected in the biological tissue, and outputs the images as image pickup signals respectively; an image generating section that generates a fluorescence image corresponding to the fluorescence, and a reference light image corresponding to the reflection light respectively based on the image pickup signals; a differential value calculating section that calculates a fluorescence differential value as a differential value corresponding to the fluorescence image, and a reference light differential value as a differential value corresponding to the reference light image respectively; a calculation section that performs calculation processing for acquiring a pixel value of one pixel position in the fluorescence differential value, and a pixel value of the one pixel position in the reference light differential value as vector components, by using the fluorescence differential value and the reference light differential value; and a region discriminating section that discriminates between an abnormal region and a normal region in the biological tissue by applying threshold processing to each of a magnitude and a phase of the vector obtained as a calculation result of the calculation section.