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US 12,299,888 · App. 18/629,975 · Granted May 13, 2025

Similarity determination apparatus, similarity determination method, and similarity determination program

Inventor: Shoji Kanada (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
G06T7/0014G16H30/40G06T2207/10028G06T2207/20021G06T2207/20081G06T2207/30004
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Patent No.
US 12,299,888
App. No.
18/629,975
Granted
May 13, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display control apparatus including at least one processor is provided. The processor is configured to display at least one first region including at least one finding on at least one first slice image of a first three-dimensional medical image on a display and display at least one second region with a maximum size of finding on at least one second slice image of at least one second three-dimensional medical image on the display.

Claims (19)

1. A display control apparatus comprising at least one processor,

wherein the processor is configured to:

display at least one first region including at least one finding on at least one first slice image of a first three-dimensional medical image on a display; and

display at least one second region including at least one candidate finding having a maximum size on at least one second slice image among a plurality of second slice images of at least one second three-dimensional medical image on the display, wherein a similarity between the at least one candidate finding and the at least one finding is greater than a predetermined threshold.

2. The display control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the at least one second three-dimensional is a plurality of second three-dimensional medical images,

the at least one second region is a plurality of second regions, and wherein

the processor is configured to display the plurality of second regions in the order of size.

3. The display control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a slice direction of the first slice image is same as the slice direction of the second slice image.

4. The display control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein

the at least one first slice image is a plurality of first slice images, wherein a slice direction of the each of the plurality of first slice image is different.

5. The display control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein at least one finding is a plurality of findings.

6. The display control apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the plurality of findings include a first finding and a second finding, wherein the first finding has a first weighting coefficient, and the second finding has a second weighting coefficient which is different from the first weighting coefficient.

7. A display control method comprising:

displaying at least one first region including at least one finding on at least one first slice image of a first three-dimensional medical image on a display; and

displaying at least one second region including at least one candidate finding having a maximum size on at least one second slice image among a plurality of second slice images of at least one second three-dimensional medical image on the display, wherein a similarity between the at least one candidate finding and the at least one finding is greater than a predetermined threshold.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores a display control program causing a computer to execute:

displaying at least one first region including at least one finding on at least one first slice image of a first three-dimensional medical image on a display; and

displaying at least one second region including at least one candidate finding having a maximum size on at least one second slice image among a plurality of second slice images of at least one second three-dimensional medical image on the display, wherein a similarity between the at least one candidate finding and the at least one finding is greater than a predetermined threshold.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-221167 · Nov 27, 2018 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17327775 · May 24, 2021
Continuation PCTJP2019041479 · Oct 23, 2019
Related Publication 20240257349A1 · Aug 1, 2024
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