Patent ID: 7912269
Filing Date: 2011-03-22
Classification: A61B,G06T

Abstract:
1. A medical image processing apparatus comprising: a blood vessel removing unit configured to remove a data of a region of a blood vessel from respectives of data of a plurality of sheets of original images collected by scanning a subject injected with a contrast medium by a medical modality; a substituting unit configured to substitute values of pixels inside the region of the blood vessel with values of pixels present at a surrounding of the region of the blood vessel in respectives of a plurality of sheets of images generated by the blood vessel removing unit; a preprocessing unit configured to execute a preprocessing including a noise removing processing for removing noise for data of a plurality of sheets of images subjected to a processing by the substituting unit; and an analyzing unit, including a processor, configured to analyze circulation dynamic state information of a substantial portion of the subject from data of a plurality of sheets of images subjected to the preprocessing by the preprocessing unit.