Patent ID: 8768436
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: A61B,G06T,G16H

Abstract:
1. A medical image processing device comprising a processing unit and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing one or more programs of instructions executable by the processing unit to configure the processing unit to perform a method including: (a) calculating blood vessel dependence indicating degree of an effect exerted by a blood vessel region extracted from a medical image with respect to each port on n an organ region extracted from the medical image, wherein the blood vessel dependence is calculated based on distance data between a portion of the blood vessel on the one hand and on the other hand respective portions in the organ region; and (b) generating and causing the image to be displayed showing the blood vessel dependence calculated in (a), wherein the blood vessel dependence is calculated in (a) based on the formula wherein the blood vessel region includes Z portions, the organ region includes N portions, Mn is n-th portion of the organ region where each of Z, N and n is a positive integer, Ci is i-th portion of the blood vessel and “Min” is minimum operator applied to Z values of with i being each positive integer from 1 to Z, “Dist(CiMn)” is the distance data between the n-th portion Mn in the organ region and the i-th portion Ci of the blood vessel region, Ai is blood flow volume in the i-th portion Ci of the blood vessel region.