Patent Document ID: 20140350350
Application ID: 14455047
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A medical image processing apparatus comprising: an image storage unit configured to store data of an image including an aneurysm in an object; a blood vessel extraction unit configured to extract a blood vessel wall region from the image; a calculation unit configured to calculate a blood vessel diameter change rate, a blood vessel curvature, and a blood vessel flattening ratio at each of a plurality of discrete points on the blood vessel wall region based on the extracted blood vessel wall region; a feature point extraction unit configured to extract a plurality of feature points from the plurality of discrete points based on at least one of the blood vessel diameter change rate, the blood vessel curvature, and the blood vessel flattening ratio; a range decision unit configured to decide a range for indwelling of a stent graft for the aneurysm in accordance with the extracted feature points; and a display unit configured to superimpose and display the range on the stored image.