Patent ID: 6606400
Filing Date: 2003-08-12
Classification: G06T,Y10S

Abstract:
An abnormal pattern detection processing method, comprising the steps of:i) feeding image signals from a predetermined image input apparatus into image signal selecting means, each of the image signals being provided with subsidiary information capable of specifying a kind of an object and a patient, ii) selecting image signals, which are among the image signals having been received from said image input apparatus and which represent images of an object to be subjected to abnormal pattern detection processing performed by abnormal pattern detecting means, the selection being performed by said image signal selecting means, iii) feeding an image signal, which represents an image of the object to be subjected to the abnormal pattern detection processing, from said image signal selecting means into input monitoring means, iv) monitoring feeding of all of the other image signals, which are to be grouped into a single set together with said image signal representing the image of the object to be subjected to the abnormal pattern detection processing and which represent images of the same object of the same patient, from said image signal selecting means into said input monitoring means, v) in cases where it has been detected that all of said other image signals have been fed into said input monitoring means, feeding all of the received image signals, which represent the images of the same object of the same patient and which are to be subjected to the abnormal pattern detection processing, in a single set from said input monitoring means into said abnormal pattern detecting means, vi) performing the abnormal pattern detection processing on the image signals having been fed in the single set into said abnormal pattern detecting means, an abnormal pattern embedded in at least one of the images represented by the image signals being thereby detected, and vii) feeding at least image signal components, which represent the abnormal pattern, into a predetermined image output device.