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Granted Patent B2
US 11,272,830 · App. 16/575,924 · Granted Mar 15, 2022

Endoscope system and operation method therefor

Inventor: Shumpei Kamon (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
A61B1/00055A61B1/00147A61B5/7221G06T7/0012G06T7/70G06T2207/10068G06T2207/30096G06V10/22G06V2201/03
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Patent No.
US 11,272,830
App. No.
16/575,924
Granted
Mar 15, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided is an endoscope system capable of easily re-searching for a detected region of interest, and an operation method for the endoscope system. An endoscope system 10 includes an endoscopic image acquisition unit 54 , a region-of-interest detecting unit 80 , a position information acquisition unit 81 , and a display unit 18 . The endoscopic image acquisition unit 54 acquires an endoscopic image acquired by capturing an image of a lumen with an endoscope 12 . The region-of-interest detecting unit 80 detects a region of interest in the lumen by using the endoscopic image. The position information acquisition unit 81 acquires position information of the region of interest detected by the region-of-interest detecting unit 80 . The display unit 18 displays the position information of the region of interest.

Claims (54)

1. An endoscope system comprising:

an endoscope; and

a processor configured to:

acquire an endoscopic image acquired by capturing an image of a lumen with the endoscope;

detect a region of interest in the lumen by using the endoscopic image;

acquire position information of the region of interest;

display the position information of the region of interest;

acquire shape information of an insertion section of the endoscope that is in the lumen;

acquire a shape-of-inserted-endoscope image by performing image processing using the shape information of the insertion section and generate a second marked image having a marking at a position corresponding to the position information of the region of interest in the shape-of-inserted-endoscope image; and

display the second marked image.

2. The endoscope system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor is further configured to:

generate a first marked image having a marking at a position corresponding to the position information of the region of interest in a schematic diagram of the lumen, and

display the first marked image.

3. The endoscope system according to claim 2 ,

wherein the processor is further configured to:

acquire an insertion state of the endoscope that is in the lumen, and

display the insertion state of the endoscope at a corresponding position of the schematic diagram.

4. The endoscope system according to claim 3 ,

wherein the processor is further configured to perform discrimination on the region of interest.

5. The endoscope system according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to output a discrimination result at least indicating whether the region of interest is a lesion portion or a normal portion.

6. The endoscope system according to claim 5 , wherein the discrimination result further indicates a type of lesion portion.

7. The endoscope system according to claim 5 , wherein the discrimination result further indicates confidence in the discrimination result.

8. The endoscope system according to claim 6 , wherein the discrimination result further indicates confidence in the discrimination result.

9. The endoscope system according to claim 5 , further comprising a storage that stores the discrimination result.

10. The endoscope system according to claim 6 , further comprising a storage that stores the discrimination result.

11. The endoscope system according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to change a display mode of the marking in accordance with a discrimination result.

12. The endoscope system according to claim 4 , wherein the processor is further configured to provide a warning, based on the position information of the region of interest and the insertion state of the endoscope.

13. The endoscope system according to claim 12 , wherein the processor is further configured to change a warning mode in accordance with a discrimination result.

14. The endoscope system according to claim 4 ,

wherein the processor is further configured to:

calculate a biological feature value of the region of interest, and

change a display mode of the marking by using the biological feature value in addition to a discrimination result.

15. The endoscope system according to claim 1 , wherein

the lumen is divided into a plurality of lumen portions,

the position information of the region of interest is lumen portion information of a lumen portion in which the region of interest has been detected among the plurality of lumen portions, and

the processor is further configured to display the lumen portion information as the position information of the region of interest.

16. The endoscope system according to claim 1 , wherein

the position information of the region of interest is distance information indicating a distance from a reference structure in the lumen, and

the processor is further configured to display the distance information as the position information of the region of interest.

17. The endoscope system according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor is further configured to:

acquire one or more insertion lengths of an insertion section of the endoscope in the lumen, and

display, as the position information of the region of interest, an insertion length with which the region of interest has been detected among the one or more insertion lengths.

18. The endoscope system according to claim 1 , comprising:

a storage that stores the position information of the region of interest.

19. An operation method for an endoscope system, comprising:

acquiring an endoscopic image acquired by capturing an image of a lumen with an endoscope;

detecting a region of interest in the lumen by using the endoscopic image;

acquiring position information of the region of interest;

displaying the position information of the region of interest;

acquiring shape information of an insertion section of the endoscope that is in the lumen;

acquiring a shape-of-inserted-endoscope image by performing image processing using the shape information of the insertion section and generating a second marked image having a marking at a position corresponding to the position information of the region of interest in the shape-of-inserted-endoscope image; and

displaying the second marked image.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 19, 2019
From: KAMON, SHUMPEI
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 050437/0148 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2017-068040 · Mar 30, 2017 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTJP2018005690 · Feb 19, 2018
Related Publication 20200008653A1 · Jan 9, 2020
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