Patent Document ID: 20160019694
Application ID: 14867210
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A region extraction processing apparatus, comprising: a gaseous region extraction unit that extracts a gaseous region from a lumen image that includes a hollow organ; a residue candidate region extraction unit that extracts a candidate of a residue region in the hollow organ from the lumen image as a residue candidate region; a boundary candidate region detection unit that detects a boundary candidate region that includes a boundary between the gaseous region and the residue candidate region; a representative direction component obtaining unit that obtains a representative direction component representing a plurality of directional components of an image in the boundary candidate region; a boundary region detection unit that detects a boundary region that includes a boundary between the gaseous region and the residue region from the boundary candidate regions based on the representative direction component; and a residue region extraction unit that extracts the residue candidate region that includes the boundary region as the residue region.