Patent Document ID: 20140219524
Application ID: 13636442
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A medical image processing apparatus comprising: an acquiring unit configured to acquire volume data of a heart; a coordinate system detecting unit configured to detect a three-dimensional left ventricle coordinate system composed of three axes including at least a left ventricle long axis of the heart from the volume data; a boundary detecting unit configured to use a boundary model expressed in the left ventricle coordinate system to detect a left ventricle boundary from the volume data by deforming the boundary model so that an error between a boundary pattern obtained by applying the boundary model to the volume data and a predetermined boundary pattern model becomes small; and a display unit configured to display the detected left ventricle boundary on a cross-sectional image together with the cross-sectional image orthogonal to at least one axis of the three axes of the left ventricle coordinate system.