Report generation support apparatus and report reading apparatus

1. A report generation support apparatus, comprising:

a specifying part configured to detect an annotation drawn in a first medical image, and configured to specify a region or a position of the annotation in the first medical image;

a generator configured to extract a segment image as a second medical image from the first medical image, the segment image including the region or the position specified by the specifying part; and

a display configured to display a diagnostic report, the first medical image, and the second medical image, wherein

the generator includes an extractor configured to extract a predetermined range that includes the region or position specified by the specifying part from the first medical image;

the annotation is a shape surrounding an attention site in the medical image; and

the extractor is configured to determine a rectangle circumscribing to the specified image region and a range expanded from each vertex of the rectangle, and extract the predetermined range as the specified region or position.

2. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 1 , comprising,

a correlating part configured to correlate the second medical image with the diagnostic report.

3. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein,

the correlating part is configured to correlate the diagnostic report with the first medical image and the second medical image.

4. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein,

the correlating part is configured to embed link information to the diagnostic report in order to correlate each other.

5. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein,

the correlating part is configured to embed link information to the diagnostic report in order to correlate each other.

6. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 1 , comprising,

a correlating part configured to correlate image processing conditions for the second medical image with the diagnostic report.

7. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein,

the correlating part is configured to embed link information to the diagnostic report in order to correlate each other.

8. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein,

the generator is configured to generate an expanded image of the first medical image as the second medical image, based on the region or the position specified by the specifying part and the first medical image.

9. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein,

the generator includes an extracting part configured to extract a predetermined range that includes the region or the position specified by the specifying part from the first medical image,

the annotation is an arrow pointing an attention site in the medical image, and

the extracting part is configured to extract the predetermined range including a tip-end region of the arrow.

10. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 1 , comprising,

an input part configured to perform operations with respect to the first medical image; wherein

the specifying part is configured to specify the region, based on a drag operation using the input part.

11. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 1 , comprising,

a display controller configured to display the first image and the second image side by side on the display.

12. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein,

the display controller is configured to

control the display to display positional relationship information indicating a positional relationship between the first image and the second image.

13. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein,

the positional relation information includes line information for displaying a line connecting a position corresponding to the second image in the first image and the second image displayed side by side with the first image, and

the display controller is configured to

specify a predetermined range including the region or the position specified in the first image, and

control the display to display line connecting a position corresponding to the second image in the first image and the second image, based on the line information.

14. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 12 , wherein,

the display controller is configured to

specify positional information corresponding to the second image in the first image, and

cause the position of the second image in the first image, based on the position information, to be displayed in a mode at least different from that of the circumference of the position, to display the positional relationship information.

15. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein,

in a case that there exists a plurality of the second images, the display controller is configured to display at least one of the second images side by side with the first image.

16. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 15 comprising,

an input part configured to perform operations with respect to display of the display; wherein

in a case that there exists a plurality of the second images, the display controller is configured to control at least one of the second images to be displayed side by side with the first image, in accordance with the operation of the input part.

17. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 16 , wherein,

the display controller is configured to, when there exists a plurality of the second images,

display each position corresponding to each of the second images in the first image in a mode at least different from that of the circumference, and further

control at least one of the second images to be displayed side by side with the first image, in accordance with an operation for selecting any one of the positions via the input part.

18. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 1 , comprising,

a display controller configured to display the second image superposing onto the first image.

19. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 18 , comprising,

an input part configured to perform operations with respect to display of the display, wherein

the display controller configured to control so as not to display the second image on the display, in accordance with the operation of the input part.

20. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 18 , comprising,

an input part configured to perform operations with respect to display of the display, wherein

in a case that there exists a plurality of the second images, the display controller is configured to control at least one of the second images to be superposed onto the first image and displayed, in accordance with the operation of the input part.

21. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 20 , comprising,

an input part configured to perform operations with respect to display of the display, wherein

the second image is an expanded image expanded a predetermined range in the first image,

the display controller is configured to, when there exists a plurality of the second images,

display each position corresponding to each of the second images in the first image in a mode at least different from that of the circumference, and further

control at least one of the expanded images to be superposed onto the first image and displayed, in accordance with the operation for selecting any one of the positions via the input part.

22. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 1 , comprising,

an input part configured to perform operations with respect to display of the display; and

a display controller configured to switch the first image or the second image to display any one of those images on the display, in accordance with the operation of the input part.

23. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein,

the generator is configured to extract the segment image from the first medical image by trimming.

24. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein,

the extractor is configured to determine the range expanded from each vertex of the rectangle with a predetermined value in advance.

25. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein, the extractor is configured to determine the range expanded in accordance with a size of the specified region or position.

26. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein, the extractor is configured to determine the range expanded from each vertex of the rectangle by a predetermined length evenly.

27. A report generation support apparatus, comprising,

a determination part configured to determine whether an annotation indicating an attention site exists or not in the correlated first image,

a generator configured to extract a segment image as a second medical image from the first medical image, based on the annotation indicating the attention site, when there exists the annotation indicating the attention site,

a display controller configured to cause the display to display the second image; and

a display configured to display a diagnostic report, the first medical image and the second medical image,

the generator comprises an extracting part configured to extract the segment image including at least a part of the annotation from the first image, when there exists the annotation indicating the attention site.

28. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 27 , wherein,

the generator comprises an extracting part configured to extract a predetermined ranae including at least a part of the annotation from the first image, when there exists the annotation indicating the attention site, and

the generator is configured to generate an expanded image corresponding to the predetermined range, as the second medical image.

29. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 27 , wherein,

the generator is configured to extract the segment image from the first medical image by trimming.

30. A report generation support apparatus, comprising:

a specifying part configured to detect an annotation drawn in a first medical image, and configure to specify a region or a position of the annotation in the first medical image;

a generator configured to extract a segmentation image as a second medical image from the first medical image, the segment image including the region or the position specified by the specifying part: and

a display configured to display a diagnostic report, the first medical image, and the second medical image, wherein,

the generator includes an extractor configured to extract a predetermined range that includes the region or the position specified by the specifying part from the first medical image;

the annotation is an arrow pointing an attention site in the medical image; and

the extractor is configured to determine an arrow annotation specifying the image region and a range expanded from a tip-end region of the arrow annotation, and extract the predetermined range including the tip-end region of the arrow annotation.

31. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 30 , wherein,

the extractor is configured to determine the range expanded from the tip-end region of the arrow annotation with a predetermined value in advance.

32. The report generation support apparatus according to claim 30 , wherein, the extractor is configured to determine the range expanded from the tip-end region of the arrow annotation by a predetermined length evenly.